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sterhill Atlanta, GA(Zone 7b) Jun 02, 2011

I saw one and now I've seen a stack of about 100... what is it? Good or bad for my garden?

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sterhill Atlanta, GA(Zone 7b) Jun 02, 2011

should have done more research before posting - this is a Red-Shouldered Bug: Jadera haematoloma

http://www.colostate.edu/Dept/CoopExt/4dmg/Pests/red.htm

Also should have added this is Atlanta, GA - zone 7 and I have never seen this bug before

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SoFlaCommercial West Palm Beach, FL(Zone 10b) Jun 02, 2011

did it have white stripes on the bottom part?

i posted a query a couple days ago. I need to know if mine is good or bad. but mine looked similar, although not as much black on the back, and mine had white stripes (sideways stripes; not long-ways) on it.

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sterhill Atlanta, GA(Zone 7b) Jun 02, 2011

sounds like yours might be a boxelder bug or a milkweed bug?

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PedoBear Petawawa, Canada Jun 05, 2011

This actually a Eastern box elder bug (Boisea Trivittata/ Milkweed Bug) nymph. If you Google it you'll find that the pictures will actually look like it, instead of kind of looking like it.

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SoFlaCommercial West Palm Beach, FL(Zone 10b) Jun 05, 2011

YEPPERS! that's what it was; thanks.

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