Let's make a deal...you stop spraying stuff unless you know what you're trying to kill, and we'll do everything we can to help ID anything you may find. OK?

Your image illustrates a ladybug larvae AND a ladybug pupae. All you need in that picture is the adult and some eggs, and you'll have the complete life cycle. The eggs hatch and the little alligator looking larvae emerge. They are also voracious feeders of aphids and other small insects. Once the larvae reaches a certain stage of development, it goes into a pupal stage where the larvae quietly turns into the adult ladybug. The insect will shed that pupal shell and the adult will emerge, all clean and shiny...something that you finally recognize.

SO! Don't keep trying to get rid of these, okay?

Here is a link that might be useful: Click here to compare

More useful now would be a picture of the damage, now that we know not to spray stuff willy-nilly without knowing what we're spraying...

Dan

"...the leaves looked like they had black sticky stuff and started to curl..."

Chances are the honeydew from aphids caused a black mold. Having aphids resulted in an increase of the ladybeetles to attack the aphid population. Don't kill the calvary as it comes over the hill. ;-)

tj

Well, the spray we were told to use didnt do anything anyway. Its supposed to be more of a mold and black spot preventative than an insecticide. If these are ladybugs in the making why do they eat holes in the leaves? They attach, lift up in the back so they are standing straight out and you can barely even pick them off if you try. And if that is a black mold how do you get rid of that. Like I said all the cherries that started are gone. By the way thanks all for the suggestions and I agree not to spray. We do not like to do that anyway. I will get some pictures of the leaves that are damaged.

The ladybugs didn't cause the holes in the leaves. Something else did.

Trust me, there is no "IF" about the ladybugs. Did you click on the link I attached for you in my earlier post? You'll see plenty of pictures of larval and pupal ladybugs.

When the little larvae enter into their pupal stage, they affix themselves to the leaf so that they don't fall off. The pupal stage is a quiescent one. The pupa is busy churning out an adult ladybug inside that 'shell' and can't hang on by itself. Pupas don't feed on anything during this part of the life cyle. All they do is sit there and hope that some big, bad human doesn't come along and mess with them too much. ;-)

Let's see some pictures of the black stuff and we can probably help you with that.

jetcity,

This spring has been rough on cherries overall in the Pacific NW (the long wet spring was loved by a lot of fungus diseses). If your's are similar to those in the Portland area, I would say probably you are dealing with Brownrot(Monilinia fruticola) causing the death of branch tips (will also get into the plant where flowers were)and the holes in the leaves are Shothole(Coryneum Blight). In landscapes and on the street, this problem can be seen a lot...some cherry types/cultivars are more prone than others.

Schmoo

OP said "Well, the spray we were told to use didnt do anything anyway. Its supposed to be more of a mold and black spot preventative than an insecticide. "

Oh my, you need to locate a resource who can provide accurate information. Perhaps your county's Extension Service office. Find your county's office with this map: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension/

Okay, back to your curled leaves and black mold. Please stay with me; take time to thoroughly digest each step to learn what occurred.

It goes like this:
1. The diagnosis for your cherry tree is most likely aphids on the undersides of the cherry leaves. Those aphids were drinking plant sap and excreting the excess that they didn't need.

2. That excess excreted sap is called honeydew. It's clear and it's sticky.

3. Then, a mold that's ever-present in the air, landed on the sticky stuff, fed on it, then produced the sooty mold (the black stuff) on the leaves. No way was that stuff black spot!

Ladybugs, both adults and youngsters feed on aphids.
The thing stuck on the leaf was a pupa as was already explained.
Please don't try to scrape them loose as you may damage them and end up with a deformed ladybug rather than a healthy one.

So, in the future, when you see similar curled leaves, please unroll them and look at what's inside the curls. Aphids, Lots and lots. Often very small.

The best & safest remedy: Keep alert for curled leaves, then wash off the aphids.

Insecticide sprays likely won't work because they are well protected within the curled leaves.

Oh yes, as was said, the ladybugs don't make holes in leaves.

Here is a link that might be useful: USDA map to locate Extension Service offices

Found this very helpful wanted to know what all the insects was flying around and the bugs attached to the leaves and found out what they both was different stages of lady bird bugs I have even found an adult one now and my black sticky leaves on my cherry tree that I had first time this year have gone and there is tons of these bugs that stand upright tried to add photos but not working

OMG, this is exactly what I have all over my day lilies! I've killed tons of them by hand. I'm so sorry lady bugs : (

So why are the day lilies suffering so much? They look like hell, leaves all brown and flopping. And they're just the classic orange indestructible ones! My other fancier day lilies are healthy and have no lady bug larvae on them at all.

Crawfish. I suggest you start a new thread of your own and include a picture of the creatures you have on your day lilies. People often think they have the same issue as another poster but when we see pictures we discover it is something different. I've not come across daylilies being particularly troubled by aphids and ladybugs do not usually occur in very large numbers.

These are called black cherry bugs. The secrete a black substance as they feed on the underside of leaves. Less photosynthesis then and the leaves start to curl. Most trees will survive, but it looks unsightly.

I've just seen it for the first time on 3 very large cherry trees we have at the back of our garden in the UK.

A fruit and veg specific bug spray could work, but reading about this, they are difficult to irradicate.

Hope that helps.