Identify my bug! Good or Bad? -Pic included
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UNICRONLIVES
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that my lady looks like a beetle!!
trichlone fiend
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...your 1st pic >>>
So there’s good news, and there’s bad news: The good news is adult fungus gnats only live about one week. The bad news is that in this short time, the female will deposit 100-150 eggs on your plant’s soil surface. These eggs are laid in strings of three to 40 and can hatch within four days of being laid!
The emerging larvae are clear to creamy-white and can grow to about 5 ½ millimeters long. They have shiny black head capsules. The larvae feed on tasty root hairs in the upper 1 centimeter of the soil, then work their way up into the plant stem. (They also love to feed on the roots of your newly planted seed, so watch those seed-starting trays in spring!) The larvae feed on highly organic soils, too. After feeding for approximately 14 days, the larva pupates. In about three and a half days, an adult will emerge from the case. The total life cycle takes two to four weeks.
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So there’s good news, and there’s bad news: The good news is adult fungus gnats only live about one week. The bad news is that in this short time, the female will deposit 100-150 eggs on your plant’s soil surface. These eggs are laid in strings of three to 40 and can hatch within four days of being laid!
The emerging larvae are clear to creamy-white and can grow to about 5 ½ millimeters long. They have shiny black head capsules. The larvae feed on tasty root hairs in the upper 1 centimeter of the soil, then work their way up into the plant stem. (They also love to feed on the roots of your newly planted seed, so watch those seed-starting trays in spring!) The larvae feed on highly organic soils, too. After feeding for approximately 14 days, the larva pupates. In about three and a half days, an adult will emerge from the case. The total life cycle takes two to four weeks.
...2nd pic idk.
drew k.420
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first one looks like it could be winged aphid or an adult fungus gnat. im looking in my desructive insect guide right now and i cant see anything that resembles that second bug.its not desructive to plants,as far as i can tell ,anyway,hope that helped,good luck.
Pipe Dream
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looks like a beetle to me too. Aren't the red lady bugs all female or something? i thought that's why they call them lady bugs. Maybe it's a male or something i don't think you have anything to worry about.
GidgetGrows
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I'm pretty sure the first is a gnat. I had one, it died, but then I seen the larvae in my soil, I poisoned some of my plants trying to kill them, but they have resurfaced as adults in the soil of my flowering prettys, so I am just doing what I can to control them so they don't get stuck all over my sticky icky.
I'm hoping that beetle came to eat them! That would be awesome, but I just don't know.
I'm hoping that beetle came to eat them! That would be awesome, but I just don't know.
UNICRONLIVES
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better safe then sorry kill them all and let God sort them out !!
dew-b
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the first looks like a young box elder bug to me. second not a lady bug.maybe take them to your local universty bug department.
UNICRONLIVES
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ok! i found it!! a carpet beetle (family Dermestidae) in the genus Anthrenus. As larvae they eat all manner of dried animal products, so are thus pests of furs, woolens, e
UNICRONLIVES
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UNICRONLIVES
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GidgetGrows
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That looks kinda like it.... maybe its that, or something similar... I tried to catch it and it flew away.... lets hope it decides to leave the garden
UNICRONLIVES
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it says the jus feed on pet fur and dander and such......but i dont think i would take any chances!!
themistocles
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Bugs can be very plant specific I've had spider mites that would be infesting one plant and not another plant right next to it and it is the same for any bug.
