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?
Denee check out this site http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfac ... /ef105.htm there is a picture of a lady beetle, also known as a ladybug, that eat plants. Your's looks a lot like it. Toni
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.
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!!
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. :'(
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. :'(
