Garden pests

Definitely spider. We have so many of them here that I get a lot of them....same symptoms as you have. One bit my cheek a few days ago and I thought I had a jaw problem until Hank noticed the bite on my cheek. Their poison takes days to subside in effect.

Brian.

I'm not sure what bit you but I get a reaction like that once in a while. I have sensitive skin. I am pretty sure it was those biting black flies. There are different kinds aren't there? I think what happens is you didn't feel it biting you so it got a lot of it's stuff to make you not feel it in there and your having a reaction.. If it doesn't go away by a couple days I'd have a doctor look at it just in case!

I know what you guys are talking about that eat Hibiscus so they look like lace.. it's sawflies larvae. If you flip the leave over you'll see them, they look like tiny green caterpillars and lots of people mistake them for cats and don't use effective pesticides on them cuz of it.

Now what the heck are these? They are on my Japanese Iris foliage, well were til I squirted neem on them.

Oh, gross, Meredith! Louise, that was a nasty spider!

YUK! Thanks for the close up Meredith...I think. I've never seen them before....gross!!!

Thanks for the in-put everyone, I do think it's a spider bite. It's been 5 days and I am now starting to itch, not as swollen but they are still pretty hard.

We've had bad winter moths this year. They live in the rampant Norway maples. This is the dormant season, but they have left gaping holes on some tree and perennial leaves and even sampled my peony buds on some plants. The tree guy is going to help me convert most of our NM trees into firewood. The next best thing is to spray them during pollen season when they are dropping their eggs. Everything within 30 feet or so of a tree has been affected. It took me a few years to wake up to what was happening because the damage is done in a week when everyone is busy with weddings and graduations and then they go dormant until the moth emerges in the winter.

I've been tackling grubs too because they apparently stunted the growth on some of my plants. I don't care so much about our grass. Every time I plant anything lately, some bionide is going into the hole where no dog can find it.

Not too troubled by garden pests yet, but I know they'll find the crops soon!

Yeah I remember my dh thinking a spider probably bit me.. I swear it was in the same spot and everything.. It took longer than any bug bite I remember having to go away too.

ewwww , don't know what they are either but glad you sprayed them

Yeah and it's weird cuz last year I found a cluster of orange eggs and got them off befor ethey hatched. These must be what hatch out of the orange eggs and I didn't check them as early this year. They remind me of sawfly larvae but I don't think sawflies lay eggs in clusters.

I've seen a total of 4 JBs. I dispatched 3 of them, and the 4th is hollowed out in a spider's web among my sunflowers. Nice job, spiders!

JB are here in droves!!! I hate them.

Well it's been over a week since I got bit and I stll have lumps. They are slowing going down but I have a hair appt. today with a new girl. Ha ha! What is she going to think when she see's my lumpy-bumpy neck!!! My reg. hairdresser is on vacation....this should be interesting!

Ok I go to take pics of blight and find these on the squash

Those are def. some kind of insect egg!

I was looking up insect eggs the other day and SO many are orange/brownish can't tell one from the other most of the time

Went to the hairdresser and she butchered me. Now everyone can see my bug bites. :) I must say....it very comfy this short......and i mean short!

It can always be shorter!

Ha! Thats called a 'High & Tight'!

JB's have arrived here, they are just starting yesterday and today... I hate them so bad. They will ruin just about any pretty flower out there. I had one chewing up a Daylily today :(

I bought a Bayer multi purpose insect...found lots of dead JBs under my Crape Myrtle YAY!

The grasshoppers have now arrived and they love to eat the Iris and Daylily foliage...check the label on the Bayer and it kills them too...so I sprayed it all!!!!

I didn't notice it until I was just editing my pics.. look at the culprit up on top of the picture.. Just waiting to devour my roses! I treated them with the systemic Bayer for Roses but I'm due again.

Ooops it's late :)

Beautiful roses, Meredith. Reading through this thread is encouraging me to hand pick the oriental beetles. Hate to use chemicals if I don't have to. Here I am planting spicebush and such to give a home to butterflies. It seems unfair to then turn around and kill them. However, some day I'd like to succeed with fruit trees. It would tak a lot of effort to handle them naturally. Among my new trees is a snow apple which for me is a bit of nostalgia because my ancesters brought this variety from Alsace in the early mid 1800's. I've asked at the orchards in central Massachusetts, and several of them have one near their house from their grandmothers, too. Well, the leaves are more eaten than the usual apple trees.

Well, we sprayed with chemicals last night. Had to. Everyone one of the Cherry tree's had lacy leaves all ready!
They (JB) were on the pears and plums too....apple tree's are next in line. :(

I lost all my cherries to brown spot this year!

Oh no. Sorry, Meredith. That stinks.

Schickenlady, those are squash bug eggs. As soon as you read this put your gardening gloves on and go scrape them off of the underside of the leaves wherever you find them. Squash bugs are the most repulsive bugs I know of. They're big and ugly and come in swarms. The adults are not really very vulnerable to insecticides. Fortunately the eggs are very visible and you can scrape them off. I think I've read that they like to retreat under stuff, like earwigs, so I don't plant my squash in black plastic holes like I do most of my garden.

Get rid of those eggs!!!!

LAS

Something chewed all the branches on my 2' Sand Cherry, went to go water the berm and thought the poor thing was dead, but NO! branches were chewed off and on the ground

Oh no!!

Same thing happened here! In one day, the branches were all chewed off of my new 'Accolade' flowering cherry. It is close to the ground. Ground hogs? The wood is still green a week later so i guess it'll come back.

Are you sure the husbands didn't accidentally weed wack them? Lol I only ask because my husband weed wacked a young bush on me once. He said he didn't see it, thought it was just some of the weed and I had a bamboo stake there and swear I pointed it out to him! Now I cage new babies!

My DH ran over a $50 dogwood last year bush-hogging. It came back thanks goodness!!!

My brother has a mole problem. Any suggestions?? I never had them.

Could be porcupines. They took down a young tree in our front yard and left us a quill as a souvenir.

My DH hasn't touched the lawn or yard so he's off the hook. Once he did mow over a PG hydrangea. Since I then planted a thriving wild hydrangea there, he feels vindicated.

I hadn't thought of porcupine but why not? We are above a brook about 200 yards away too, but i always figured the beavers have better places to go. My dog Clifford has been barking at some creature a lot at night , but he stays rooted in the safety of the thicket gowing in pots on my deck.

Best cure for moles are airedales.....

This guy tried to join us on our screened porch this afternoon. He reminded me of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. :) He didn't survive the arrival of DH.

Louise what the heck is it???


No hubby didn't weed wack it, it's planted in the new berm no weeds there ☺

I said to myself - What the heck is it?

looks like those big black bugs that have a skeleton looking body. We used to get them on the screened in porch @ camp. They creeped me out!