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jim001
Just Arrived
Joined: 21 Jun 2006
Location: Kouts Indiana
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:07 am Post subject: Strange bug |
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Does any one know what this is.
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Gizmo
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Location: Port Saint Lucie Fl. (Map)
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:44 am Post subject: |
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Looks like they are stuck together,R they? If so maybe some kind of love bugs?
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bethie
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Joined: 08 Jun 2006
Location: WestTennessee (Map)
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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This is a Large Milkweed Bug. They do no significant damage to plants. 
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Gizmo
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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Thats good to know.
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Pinkiered
The Rose Queen
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
Location: Lawton, Ok (Map)
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Hey those are the adults of some bugs I took pics of on my butterfly bushes.
They lay eggs and the babies come out tiny and orange. As they get bigger they eat alots of bug that eat off my butterfly bushes. Im now finding them on my passion vine and roses!
Heres a topic I started and its got the pics of the little ones.
http://www.gardenstew.com/about1617.html
The one that flew away looked just like yours but smaller....it has just morphed from the skin of the one at the bottom in above topic.
They have a tube like mouth, I am guessing and used it to impale the fly.
I am letting them stay. I have their egg sac everywhere.
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flowie
On The Way Up
Joined: 13 Jul 2006
Location: Melville, NY (Map)
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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ive seen these bugs on my palm trees when they were first brought here from Florida. I was wondering the same thing.
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