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cedar18 Lula, GA(Zone 7b) May 18, 2011

This group of bugs is on an oriental lily leaf. Could someone tell me what they are?
Thanks

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DWMike Oxford, MS(Zone 7a) May 18, 2011

Hard to tell from the image but they could be Assassin Bug nymphs or they could be Leaf-footed Bug nymphs or any number of other insect nymphs,

Attached is a shot of some Leaf-footed Bug nymphs that were on my Umbrella grass last year. I followed them and watched them turn into adult Acanthocephala terminalis (Leaf-footed Bug)

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cedar18 Lula, GA(Zone 7b) May 18, 2011

Mike, is that the egg case on the top left in your collage? I saw a brown line, about 2" long, of something like that on the leaf where I first saw the bugs!! But I thought, well, that doesn't mean they came from there, since it didn't look disturbed. That is why I did not take a pic of it. "My" bugs look like your little red guys, so I think you have it.

Thanks so much!

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