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EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
Sometimes the strangest ickiest looking things turn out to be one of the best of friends to a gardener...

Most lady bug beetles are beneficial in the garden. They really like to eat aphids.

Most lady bug beetles are beneficial in the garden. They really like to eat aphids.
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43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
Great post camp! Sticky'd


I am my gardens worst enemy.
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Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
Pretty picture! Thanks, I'll be sure not to squish those bugs
Although I'm sorry to say it's a rare day when I see an actual ladybug. Maybe once a year around here. Maybe I should order some.
Then again, it's a rare day when I see aphids, too!

Then again, it's a rare day when I see aphids, too!
Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
Insects are vectors for plant disease.
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/text18/plantvectors.html <~~click
cross posted to Diseases
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/text18/plantvectors.html <~~click
cross posted to Diseases
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
What is that Worm?
WHAT IS THAT CATERPILLAR? Maybe this website knows.
http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?guide=Caterpillars
http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?guide=Caterpillars
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/okgard/msg0810253229057.html


43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Thanks
Wow, very helpful info camprn. There is so much to learn about helpful insects. I'm trying so hard to minimize things like neem by picking off and squeezing bugs.
It is amazing how similar some bugs look. Good guy and bad guy can easily be confused as the other. The more I know, the more I realize how little I know.
It is amazing how similar some bugs look. Good guy and bad guy can easily be confused as the other. The more I know, the more I realize how little I know.
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Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
there still bad boys out there. What if you were there size? recognizing them help. great post CampRN.
has55- Posts : 2378
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Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
Letting the baseball card child out. Insects on cards, the good and the bad.
New Beneficial Bug Cards
New Beneficial Bug Cards
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Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
love lady nymphs and adults in the garden...sad thing is I have not seen a single one yet this year...or lacewings, praying mantis, etc...and my garden is getting ravaged by pests.
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Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
found this in my raised bed today But next to the bark.
kind of looks like one of the lady bug , but ooks too big to be a lady bug and dont think it is a Caterpillar /butterfly as it was in the dirt hiding in the dark does not like the light.

kind of looks like one of the lady bug , but ooks too big to be a lady bug and dont think it is a Caterpillar /butterfly as it was in the dirt hiding in the dark does not like the light.


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Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
Something about that looks like a cut worm to me.
Did it curl up? Then it would definitely be a cut worm.
Miller moths are the adult.
Did it curl up? Then it would definitely be a cut worm.
Miller moths are the adult.
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Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
Correct curls up and does not like Sunlight heads for shade.
excellent another pest identified
Thank You
recoush
found a site below that talks about this pest and why its called a miller moth
leaves behind a white powder :>)
http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2014/05/miller-moths.html
excellent another pest identified

Thank You
recoush
found a site below that talks about this pest and why its called a miller moth
leaves behind a white powder :>)
http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2014/05/miller-moths.html
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Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
This is the best book I have ever seen on this subject


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Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
Looks like a grub to me, though it's hard for me to tell for sure from the photo. Is it mostly whitish, with an orange head and legs, and a gray rear? Scroll down a few for a photo: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/field/white_grub.htm
Grubs also curl up in a C shape and head for darkness.
Most grubs are 'bad', but apparently there's at least one 'good' kind:
http://swiftsgardeningblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/bumble-flower-beetle-euphoria-inda-is.html
PDF link doesn't work, but I found this:
https://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=5171046
Grubs also curl up in a C shape and head for darkness.
Most grubs are 'bad', but apparently there's at least one 'good' kind:
http://swiftsgardeningblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/bumble-flower-beetle-euphoria-inda-is.html
PDF link doesn't work, but I found this:
https://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=5171046
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Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
oh maybe it was bumble flower grub hard to tell was in the soil the marking kind of look d lady bug back end? have to wait tell is see another, at least now i have two possible candidates thanks recoush
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Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
I have this.TNGeezer wrote:This is the best book I have ever seen on this subject
Re: EWWWWW.........bugs and stuff...good or not so good?
I'm not sure which aspect of the back end of a ladybug you mean. The head of both grubs and cutworms tends to be shiny like a ladybug's shell.recoush wrote:oh maybe it was bumble flower grub hard to tell was in the soil the marking kind of look d lady bug back end? have to wait tell is see another, at least now i have two possible candidates thanks recoush
Here's a link to the archived version of the website, for distinguishing different kinds of grubs if you find another:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070206032058/http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/atru/research/grubs.pdf
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