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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
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Does anybody know what this is, or have a source for figuring it out? I am hoping they are insects that eat bad bugs, and not the kind that damage fruit. But they seem to be hanging around fruit.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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assassin bugs think
predators if so KarenO |
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Tomatovillian™
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That was a name that came to mind. Thanks!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2016
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I thought that they may be nymphs of leaf footed bugs. They look very similar and you can Google to see the differences. The leaf footed bug nymphs will be found in groups and they do like fruit but the assassin bugs hunt alone so you will not find them in a big group.
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Tomatovillian™
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Somebody said that in another forum. I found a " leaf-hpopper assassin bug”. But that might be denial. https://m.wikihow.com/Kill-Leaf-Footed-Bugs This is definately a group. In another part of the garden I have what looks like leaf footed bugs. I thought they were stink bugs. What's the differrence? This was interesting. "these Leaf Footed Bug nymphs are phytophagous, meaning they feed on plants. Like other members of the True Bug suborder Heteroptera, they have mouths designed to pierce and suck fluids," https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2018/04...y-woody-plant/ Last edited by Shrinkrap; July 11, 2019 at 03:39 AM. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Leaf footed bugs are a type of stink bug. There are many kinds of stink bugs.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Alabama
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If you look at the bug in the shadow of the fruit you can see the thickening of the lower back leg. Sometimes that is very hard to determine when they first hatch out but if you look close you will see it on some of them within a day or so. Bill |
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Tomatovillian™
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Yesterday I downloaded "Excellent PDF about bad, and beneficial stink bugs" shared by arena on the "friend or for" thread, and learned a lot! That's a lot of information! I found this helpful as well. https://m.wikihow.com/Kill-Leaf-Footed-Bugs We have had some amazingly mild weather for the most part, but we will have a spare of 90's and 100's which always made me nervous about spraying. I tried vacuuming them yesterday, but only caught one. @b54red, When you say "kill them quickly", did you have a method in mind? Last edited by Shrinkrap; July 11, 2019 at 12:30 PM. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2008
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You will almost never see assassin bugs in numbers. You will almost always see leaf footed bugs (nymphs in this case) in numbers. If I see two or more, I waste no time killing them and looking for additional eggs. Bad dudes.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2009
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I found one lone adult yesterday when fertilizing and sprayed it on my hot pepper plant. Hopefully before it laid eggs but time will tell. By doing this since spring with both stinkbugs and leaf footed bugs I haven't had to do a general spray get them under control this year or last. If your ripe tomatoes and ripe bell peppers are showing round spots about 3/8ths of and inch to 1/2 inch usually near or on the top of the fruit then you may have a good number of the pests and you may have to spray all your plants to get them under control. Otherwise keep an eye out for the little orange herds and kill them all! Bill |
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Tomatovillian™
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Thank you!
I do have the "halo" thing scattered on some of my tomatoes, which is where I've seen a few stink bugs. Maybe three out of seven harvested tomatoes. It seems more obvious when the tomatoes are cut open, and I have not cut most of my harvested tomatoes. I have seen two or three stinkbugs since starting this thread.That would be three bugs on about twenty plants. I have not seen halos or stink bugs on my peppers, where I saw the nymphs. The "nymph" peppers are several yards away from the stink bug tomatoes.I have not been searching too aggressively. I dusted with diatomaceous earth yesterday, before I read the last posts, but am trying to wait until temps drop below 95 to spray. I was thinking neem oil, but I think I have a version of permethrin. ETA no; I have pyrethrins. https://www.hunker.com/12224525/pyrethrin-vs-permethrin Last edited by Shrinkrap; July 16, 2019 at 01:08 AM. |
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