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Lily_love wrote:
Well folks, it sure has been an interesting dialogue. I appreciate all the information given regarding various blood born diseases that afflict human. In reading your comments, it reminded me of a quote, author unknown. Ask NOT what disease a person has, but what disease has the person. For no one specifically asks FOR any type of illness...

Also, did you know Chagas disease is a cause of certain heart failure? A type of extrinsic cardiomyopathy, just like alcoholic cardiomyopathy in human (a type heart failure that's inadvertently acquired)? Like I've mentioned before awareness is key. With that I'll close out this post with thanks to both greene33 and Flapdoodle for your input. Special thanks to Flapdoodle for the non-working link on the Leaffootedbug, which in turn lead me to further research, and observation of various bugs found in my garden.

Yesterday, at day ends I noticed this bug with its long snout (probosis?) I quickly jumped into a conclusion that it maybe a 'good bug' that eats other insects in the garden. But then at close observation, I noticed its flattened hind legs. Then I asked myself could this be the mother bug of the little nymphs found nearby a couple days past? So happens, the first group of nymphs were scattered by a heavy rain earlier in the day. But look, what I've found, that same evening, another group of newly hatched bugs on an ornamental shrub. And with a little more reading, I concur, these are Leaffooted nymphs and one adult atop a young shoot of a plant. Mystery solved!
1. The adult Leaf-footed bug (Leptoglossus phyllopus) It's a tongue twisting scientific NAME!
2 & 3. The two-day old nymphs found after a heavy rain.
4 & 5. Photos of another group of nymphs newly hatched (as evident by a string of bead-like egg sacs under the leave). I apologize the pictures are not in the best quality, and clarity.