Adults are important apple pollinators. Tachinid fly larva primarily the immature stages of moths, beetles, and sawflies.
Adults look like house flies, but with more hairs.
Green lacewing larva aphids, leafhoppers, mites, eggs and small lepidoptera larvae, mealybugs, scale insects. Active early spring to late summer. Consume 20 to several hundred aphids a day. Ladybird beetle adults and larvae aphids, mites, scale insects, small caterpillars, plant bugs. Many species found in orchards.