I have a lot of aphids in my garden this year.  I don't spray them except for a sharp jet of water, and I do see many more ladybugs and other predators as the years have gone by.  But this crop of aphids was overwhelming.  Here they are on a Nassella pulchra (Purple Needle Grass) seedling.  I thought that the native plants and particularly the hardy grasses would be immune.  I was wrong.

Closer.

They ended up on my pole beans.  Here's the bamboo trellis that I built with baby bean plants at lower left.  Nearby bush beans seemed unaffected.
 
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