Carolina Gardening: Okay, who is eating my Salvia and Joe Pye Weed?, 1 by gessieviolet

gessieviolet wrote:
pyromomma, while I don't think this is what you are contending with I wanted to show everyone one of my biggest pest problems. These things will go through a tomato quicker than a couple of chickens. I have had them destroy amaryllis bulbs completely in one night!! Thank goodness, this year they are relatively scarce and I have seceded in controlling them with hand picking, I take great delight in pulling off their heads. In fact this photo was made just before an execution of several took place. ( My DW says "How gross!!) This is actually a small one, as they get larger they get aggressive and will actually try to fight you making a barking sound!! Anybody know what it is?

I put this on the bug ID forum as suggested and immediately got this source of information. This is it exactly, down to the barking hiss!! See http://tinyurl.com/nyu4sr for more information.

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