Who are these guys and what are they doing in my garden?

CLa · April 29, 2007

Check photo below, got brown bugs on white eggs. Are they both bad? Any of them good? Moving the leaf around to take a picture, I don't think anything moved at all. the brown guys are pretty still. Or should I say happy where they are..

Gimme3 · April 29, 2007

CLa...that looks like young stinkbug creatures...but i caint say for sure. If they are still around, u might try pickin that leaf, and puttin it in a jar w/some screen over the top of it, an givin em a few stalky plants to live in...long enough to see em grow up an find out what they are. Not all stinkbugs are harmful...i discovered the Species Stiretrus Anchorago, which is a Predatory stinkbug, in my garden 2 years ago...and it co-incided with the beginning of curing a Mexican bean beetle problem, here...not to mention...the Beauty of the bug itself.

CLa · April 30, 2007

ah well, I flushed the leaf down the toilet after taking the picture hehe. Maybe I'll catch some more.

feldon30 · April 30, 2007

I thought stink bug and leaf-footed bug eggs were blackish-brown, square, and laid in straight rows?

Earl · May 2, 2007

I think they're Japanese Beetles.

April 29, 2007	#2
Gimme3 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Northeast Georgia, USA Posts: 348	CLa...that looks like young stinkbug creatures...but i caint say for sure. If they are still around, u might try pickin that leaf, and puttin it in a jar w/some screen over the top of it, an givin em a few stalky plants to live in...long enough to see em grow up an find out what they are. Not all stinkbugs are harmful...i discovered the Species Stiretrus Anchorago, which is a Predatory stinkbug, in my garden 2 years ago...and it co-incided with the beginning of curing a Mexican bean beetle problem, here...not to mention...the Beauty of the bug itself. __________________ ....Can you tell a green Field.....from a cold steel rail ? Roger Waters, David Gilmour

May 2, 2007	#5
Earl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 1,278	I think they're Japanese Beetles. __________________ "Seriously think about what you're about to do/say before you do it and the outcome will always be better." Earl

April 30, 2007	#3
CLa Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Central Louisiana. Zone: 8 Posts: 207	ah well, I flushed the leaf down the toilet after taking the picture hehe. Maybe I'll catch some more.

April 30, 2007	#4
feldon30 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 5,346	I thought stink bug and leaf-footed bug eggs were blackish-brown, square, and laid in straight rows?