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Beetle with orange spot

14 years ago

I posted a message last week trying to figure out my pest problems. After spending some quality time with my camera in the garden I got some images. I have lots of them through out the garden. Most of my vegetables seem to have been eaten or killed, especially my spinach. Other plants are getting holes chewed through the leaves. Any help with what these bugs are and what to rid them with is very much appreciated.

Beetle number 2 will be on my next post.

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hortster
14 years ago
Some type of stink bug. Not sure what species...
hortster

Here is a link that might be useful:
jean001
14 years ago
It's a stink bug nymph, to be more precise the fifth instar of the bordered plant bug, Largus cinctus.

Its mouthparts are geared for sucking rather than for making holes.

Typically they can be extremely abundant but not a problem.
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jean001
14 years ago
Just found your other thread -- this is the other's kid!
rmaclee77
Original Author
14 years ago
OK, thanks for the info. So we've got an entire colony living in the garden. The mom is the bug with the light brown on the edges and the one with the orange spot is the kid? They look so entirely different! Guess that's part of their life cycle. If these bugs are geared for sucking, are they sucking on plants?
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jean001
14 years ago
It was said "Some stink bugs cause plant damage..."

True. But I said *this* one doesn't.

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