toni
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:06 pm Post subject: Pest or nice Wildlife? |
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I found this crawling along the top of the yard waste bag I had just shoved Coreopsis cuttings into.
It's about 1.5 inches long (3.8 centimeters)
Should I drop it into that bag to get it out of my yard or place it on the ground in the garden?
Are you a good but or a bad bug? ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden )
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cajunbelle
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Get rid of it, it's a chinch bug, they come in several different colors, including green, and they may differ slightly in shape or pattern, but they all have piercing sucking mouths that love to eat tomatoes, squash and probably other veggies and fruit, they are a bad nuisance.
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Chinch bug for sure Toni even although we don't have them here in Scotland. A friend once posted a piccie of some to me that were destroying his tomatoes - I hope you don't find any more.
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Toni just step on it as they are bad as Cajunbelle said.
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Ugh!
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toni
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I don't think it's a Chinch bug, everything I have found about them describes them as being way less than a half inch long...that one was 1 and 1/2 inches long.
Could be a mega-sized cousin.
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cajunbelle
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In Louisiana we call every piercing sucking insect a chinch bug. I couldn't even find a pic of the green ones that we have here, but we also have the one in your photo and some even bigger. They are nasty little critters.
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I will be spraying the yard with NEEM oil this winter and early spring so maybe that will take care of the larvae.
I find grubs in the soil but they are the ones that become June Bugs. Guess I will be on the lookout for any of it's brothers or sisters, that one has gone off to it's next life by the way 
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