If you find any of these in your garden, you are in luck. You’ve got help controlling pests. This is a Downy Leather-wing (Podabrus pruinosus), a species of Soldier Beetle in the family Cantharidae.

Specifically how are they going to help you in the garden? They eat Aphids and Spider Mites. Good ones to have around.

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