Pests, Diseases and Other Problems
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Subject: Bug ID needed
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lisfisher |
Ct
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Found two bugs just inches away from my plants. They were about and inch down and turned up as I was loosening the soil around the plants.Critters are about 1/2 long, dark brown/black and narrow and elongated. What may help to i.d these is that they are like speed borers when going back into the ground. Never saw anything burrow so quickly.
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5/16/2009 7:02:03 PM
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Tremor |
Ctpumpkin@optonline.net
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Sounds like a common garden beetle but a picture would help. Did you try doing a Google Images search?
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5/16/2009 7:37:16 PM
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lisfisher |
Ct
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Yes I did a search but came up with only similar looking bugs like the devil's coach horse or the earwig.
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5/16/2009 8:01:10 PM
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Engel's Great Pumpkins and Carvings |
Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)
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hmmmm how about a lady bug larvae...did it have a 3 segmented body or several segments
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5/16/2009 11:09:14 PM
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pumpkin cholo |
Bloomington, IN
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Did it look something like this? http://www.cirrusimage.com/Beetles/ground-beetle-scarites-1.jpg
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5/17/2009 2:42:33 AM
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pap |
Rhode Island
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it sounds a lot like the dreaded sackusumongus beetle. no need to worry. they are harmless. when you get those striped cukecumber beetles? worry, then get out the contact or sestemic insect killer.
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5/17/2009 7:41:09 AM
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lisfisher |
Ct
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Nope it's not the ladybug larvae or the beetle in the link below. Looks much like an earwig shape, with a round shaped black head like a bb.I guess there's no need for concern, as it is not a cuke beetle or svb or corn maggot.
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5/17/2009 8:28:19 AM
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