These critters are on my brugs!!! With all the rain I can't spray. Just curious as to what they are....besides hungry!!
What are these??
From the shape, they look like young Japanese Beetles. I can't say that I've ever seen them before they got their color tho. I hope that isn't what you have. If so, many people hand pick them and toss them into soapy water to die. Someone who knows for sure will have to post if they are Japanese Beetles or something else. I'm just guessing.
Not japanese beetles.
If they aren't eating the leaves they are probably a good beetle. Good beetles eat aphids and mites. There's different kinds of good beetles.
This is a Japanese Beetle. They can eat up a leaf in no time!
I have never seen these before. And yes they are eating the devil out of the tender new leaves. I go out in between rain downpours and pick them off, then throw them in the goldfish pond. The goldfish seem to like them. When they eat the leaves it looks like they have been shot with bb's, tiny perfect little holes.
Do you have a lot of plants attacked?
Try Bayers Tree and Shrub...the spray will work systemically for about a week, and they may be thru their life cycle by then.... The drench works longer but is expensive for a lot of plants.
YUCK.
Eternity, Jamie and an unknown white are the only ones that are not effected by these little devils, so far. I do know that they don't fly. They are the strangest things, really ugly little critters!
Here is my unknown white. It was beautiful this morning, now look at it. These things do some serious damage....FAST!
They look somewhat like the cucumber beetle(maybe relative). I dust a little Seven, Kelthane, any kind of poison for beetles. Looks a little unsightly right in top of plants, but does keep lots of bugs, mites etc. off, until rain washes it off. I also dust around the bottom of plant, keeps earwigs and bugs from crawling up the stem.
Hope this helps.
Oh my kill them fast.
The other day I was watching tons of cucumber beetles eating holes in all my blooms. I went nuts with hate. Nothing worse than holes in your blooms. I always pull those blooms off if I can.
So I went to the hardware store right then, and bought myself a can of Raid for flying insects and some masks. I then sprayed up at them at my blooms and one by one they dropped dead. Their little legs just curled right up and they fell to the ground.
I then ran thru the brugs spraying the whole can up at the tops of all my flowers. Die beetles die I chanted. And they all did.
A long time ago there was a lady on here named Arlene. She swore by Raid for every bug. Everytime I have used it, I have been happy with the results. I wonder if it works on mites too?? It is great, it puts out a fog that envelops the plant.
Meag848,
I hope you dont mind me using your picture to point out what I see. See the one that I circled and have an arrow pointing to the "snout". From what I tell these bugs are some type of weevil due to the long snout, they are in beetle family.
You need to take some type of action to control them. But you will need to be real careful that whatever type of insecticide you use, that it does not drift or run into the area where your fish are located.
