|
|
Need a bug IDed, please!
|
|
|
|
|
Pinkiered
The Rose Queen
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
Location: Lawton, Ok (Map)
Posts: 927
|
| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:12 pm Post subject: Need a bug IDed, please! |
|
This little beetle has been chewing off the tops of my rose buds. I finally had the camera with me when I caught him red handed.
I tried to get more and better pics but I guess he was camera shy cuz he flew the coop.
The damage they are doing(old pics)
Anyone know?
_________________
I do not have a green thumb
My plants just have the will to live.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Kimberly
On The Way Up
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Posts: 140
|
| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject: |
|
Ohhh NO!!! Bettles can be nasty little varmets but I've never seen one like that!!! 
|
|
| Back to top |
|
toni
Mistress of Garden Junque
 Moderator
Joined: 07 Jan 2006
Location: North Texas (Map)
Posts: 5556
PlantStew: 521 |
|
| Back to top |
|
eileen
Moderator & Resident Taxonomist
Moderator
Joined: 07 Feb 2005
Location: Scotland (Map)
Posts: 11532
|
| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: |
|
Oh dear it looks as though Toni has found your culprit. Let's hope there aren't more of them around.
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Pinkiered
The Rose Queen
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
Location: Lawton, Ok (Map)
Posts: 927
|
| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject: |
|
Ok it looks kind of like that but the heads all wrong. Ive seen lady bugs and this isnt a lady bug.
Ill see if I can get a better pic of it.
_________________
I do not have a green thumb
My plants just have the will to live.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Pinkiered
The Rose Queen
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
Location: Lawton, Ok (Map)
Posts: 927
|
| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:02 am Post subject: |
|
OK I went out there with my camera but everytime I tried to get a good shot, they would take off. So I found a bud one was munching on and I took it...bud and bug. I put them in a ziplock bag.
Now every one if them I have seen are yellow with black dots and the dots are always in a row. Their bodys are long and their head is solid black . At the end of the head, looks like that of a ant. It looks like small pinchers for a mouth.
Heres the pics.
Now if you need more pics, let me know. I have him in a bag and Im NOT letting him go! So he is ready for his closeup!!
_________________
I do not have a green thumb
My plants just have the will to live.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Pinkiered
The Rose Queen
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
Location: Lawton, Ok (Map)
Posts: 927
|
| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:13 am Post subject: |
|
Never mind! I found it! Its a Black Spotted Cucumber Beetle.
_________________
I do not have a green thumb
My plants just have the will to live.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
eileen
Moderator & Resident Taxonomist
Moderator
Joined: 07 Feb 2005
Location: Scotland (Map)
Posts: 11532
|
| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:30 am Post subject: |
|
Oh dear not something you want in the garden!!! Very destructive.  I hope you can find something that will kill them off before they destroy any more of your poor plants.
Sorry about the wrong ID but it did look like a ladybird in your first piccies - maybe it would have been better if it had been one after all. 
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Pinkiered
The Rose Queen
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
Location: Lawton, Ok (Map)
Posts: 927
|
| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:33 am Post subject: |
|
I would prefer a ladybug to this!!! Sok about the wrong ID. They were bad pics.
I guess Ill be buying some ladybugs now. They say that they will eat these larva. I have to do something. They also say that when they hatch, they will attack the host plant by the roots.
_________________
I do not have a green thumb
My plants just have the will to live.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
You're looking at one of the many forums on GardenStew.com. Register for free to join in the discussion.
|
|
|
|
Bookmark us 
Subscribe
