Garden pests

What kind of pests are bothering your garden????

Found what I thought was this guy today... but didn't find him on a rose, phlox or petunia...wonder if they really aren't that picky???
http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/Web/247OrientalBeetle.pdf

I have been hand picking Asiatic lily beetles off of my two lilies. I don't think there were nearly so many this year due to the cold wet spring we had. I only took a few off the lily in the pot and the lily in the garden doesn't seem to be bothered by them at all. Also, used the plastic cup method to catch them. Put a small plastic drink cup under the leaf with the beetle so that when it tries to escape by falling to the ground, it falls in the cup. so simple, so why did it take so long for me to figure it out?
Marftha

With the Japanese beetles I use an old detergent bottle (with some water and shake it up) and knock them into there

I noticed fewer red lily beetles as well, Martha, but I think in MA, that's due to an introduced predator......Karen suggested spinosad, & I sprayed several times....no sign of them left. Hard to use the cup method....I have about 30 lilies....I found one striped cucumber beetle in the veggie garden, & smushed him....looks like the tomato leaves have been attacked by flea beetles....I pulled off the affected leaves....

true, I hand pick because I have only two lilies left. I love stargazers but they took those out a long time ago before I was up on what was doing it. rose leaves were sadly laced by winter moths. I don't usually get a lot of japanese beetles up here and hand pick those when I see them.
Martha

So far: Flea Beetle, Striped Beetle, Aphids and 5 red lily beetles squished them. Then there is a beetle that is gold and shinny attacking my MG's.

The tomato horn worm will be next as its almost July. I get them every year. YAK

OK - what is going on here? Sunday something was in the sawdust and I scooped out a grey slimy flat poop. 3 inches long... Cat?

Then Yesterday I went down and an eggplant was pulled right out of the ground by the roots. No paw prints and again a grey kinda flat poop about an inch and a half long.

Now today 2 pepper plants. There is paw prints and they are sunk in about 3/4 of an inch. What ever it is, was after the pepper plant roots. Any ideas?

This pic you can see the dirt moved on to the sawdust

This one up close. Again the prints are about 3/4" deep

Skunk? Coon? Rabbit? What would pull a eggplant right out of the ground?

groundhog? they would prefer lettuce or other leaf veggies, but they can and do pull things up to take a bite and see if they like it. I have to grow all my lettuce in pots on small tables off the ground to keep them out.
Martha

I recently posted 3 questions in the "Garden Pests and Diseases" forum. Only one has gotten a response. We're in western Maine, so I guess this is appropriate here! I have 2 bean and a lily question (not red Asian beetles... plenty of those, but no questions.) If you have a moment, could you look at those? They're still on the first page.

TIA
LAS

I saw a groundhog 2 years ago. Hum

http://www.rodenator.com/

UGH found my first JBs today....a couple on my roses and crape myrtle

They won't show up here for another week probably...they love my roses....

Oh!!!!! I was just going to ask a question about June bugs being pests for plants and it suddenly dawned on me that Japanese beetles certainly are!!!! Rice pudding brain again.

LAS

Something ate the tops off my lettuce, before I got any! This is in the 30 inch high planters, so must have been a deer.

In my house, I have lots of moths this year.

So far flea beetles on my Eggplant and Brussels Sprouts; striped cucumber beetles and mexican bean beetles on my squashes and cucumbers. Also a few slugs on one of my Hosta plants.
A 'lovely' deer ate the tips off our apple trees and the apples! Dirty lil' bugger...

Its a buggy year

My rose leaves are very sad looking......

Some of mine are too Robin, but others are fine. Go figure?!

Ants...millions of ant nest this year.... mostly the small little ants but still, milllions of the darn things!

I always think they built our house on an ant farm

And when they come out they are carrying eggs ! Still fighting with them for over a month now.

Rain brings them in.....

Still fighting those dang red lily beetles. My asiatic lily luckily was able to bloom prettily before being taken completely over by them. Man it's ugly out there. I keep a little prescription bottle hidden nearby to drop them into but mostly I just squash them.

Spinosad took care of flea beetles and the 2 potato or cucumber beetles (fleeting glance) I've seen on the potatoes.

Someone told me last year (Victor, maybe???) what makes swiss cheese of the leaves on roses and hardy hibiscus? The leaves look like lace once the darn thing has finished and my Safer insecticidal soap doesn't seem to be doing the trick. Can someone jog my bad memory as to what creep is making bridal lace of my pretty rose leaves? Thanks!!

Same here on my Peach Schnapps, though it keeps going! Forgot what it was!

Anyone know what would do this? I can only think of 3 things that make me swell like this...spider, blackflies and horseflies. Blackflies are gone by... but we do have an abundance of horseflies this year. This picture was taken 3 days AFTER I got bit. My neck was stiff, glands and nodes swollen for at least 3 days.

Is it hot? Does it throb? Does it itch or does it just hurt?

Thats what I look like after getting bit by a black fly, a black fly will leave a hole in the middle. In other words you can see where the teeth dug in.

Mosquitos dont get quite that big and they go away in hours.

Horse fly - just stings me and a tiny welt and might itch for a day. Thats just me.

Looks like a bite. Black flies are still after me here.


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What ever it was bit me 5 times in a line....makes me think it's a spider.

I have had a black fly do that to me, also a mosquito. Is it hot?

Nope, but hard as a rock.

A spider has never sunk its fangs in me, so dont know.

Pixie, I was bitten in the back of the knee like that a month ago...still have the lump....I suspected spider as well!

I suspect Brian.

Brian was not in my garden!

LOL!!!

I think spider

I'd go for spider. A blackfly will bite multiple times, but unless you're very sensitive it shouldn't do the heat and lymph node thing, although it will make a big lump.