A suspicious pair

I snapped this in my flower bed this morning. It’s looking pretty bad for the critter on the left. Bonus pic: I also spotted a ladybug that just emerged from its pupal stage, wings out to dry and all.

I posted a week or so ago about my Cosmos being infested with mealy bugs (ID’d here, thanks). It turns out that I didn’t need to do any pest control because the ladybugs ate them all.