CLOSED: mean looking bug on sunflowers

Roopville, GA(Zone 7b)

these bugs were all over my sunflowers last year and now they are back! yucky! they sure look like mean little guys lol. can anyone help me identify these? thanks so much!

kelly : )

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Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a)

It is a Leaf-footed Bug of the family Coreidae, but I cannot find an exact match

Kennedy

Roopville, GA(Zone 7b)

thank you so much! i had no idea what they were.

kelly

mid central, FL(Zone 9a)

and they will kill the growing tips of anything they munch on, including my roses! i catch them with a tongs and squish them.

Roopville, GA(Zone 7b)

great idea! aren't they mean looking? they creep me out lol. they often fly at me when i get near. they send my girls squealing away many times lol.

kelly

mid central, FL(Zone 9a)

they creep me out too! i hate them. here is the kind i have in my garden. this one is even eating a rosebud. http://www.floridanature.org/species.asp?species=Acanthocephala_femorata

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