Hello again, First, Alison & Nancy, pls. excuse me, I seem to have accidentally deleted the paragraphs I'd written addressing your comments (yikes, but it was late, I was tired & I've been sick for a couple of days (home sick 1 day, an intense cold flew thru my body in a couple of days)). Oops, I digress. I had thanked you both for your comments on the trademarked issues, that you both confirmed my feelings that the prohibition was in propagating &/or profiting. I hadn't propped them & was just sharing (tho' I had wished to have them sold at the Plant Sales Table as usual). Brilliant the suggestion to simply not specify which Ag in particular, simple but just never occurred to me (duh). Hey Purple, I remember your mention of the lost X stitch files. Do you know that GW has a Quilting Forum? Might your Mom like to check that out? Dorky me forgot to suggest pls. to search for my work there. Same handle, just search Pirate_Girl, IâÂÂve got some Quilts posted there along w/ sometime comments abt othersâ works there. IâÂÂm a pretty serious Quilter, âÂÂrecovering textile designerâÂÂ, long story also explained in my Quilt Blog. Suppose its OK to digress my own thread, huh? Or have OT conversation should I say, w/ Purple. Hiya Toni, Thx for lovely words, I DO love my quilts, thereâÂÂs no denying ⦠donâÂÂtâ think we ever had this conversation, thoâ rings familiar you mentioning suggesting I market myself. Sure IâÂÂd love to, except I work full time & also do the Work, so got no time left for marketing. Thoâ these days w/ Etsy (not there yet, but I aspire to sometime). IâÂÂm aiming more for something called Spoonflower, a company which allows a person to pay to have custom designs printed on yardage of fabrics. IâÂÂve been holding onto a couple of dozens original designs IâÂÂve wanted to see on fabric for YEARS. So, thatâÂÂs what IâÂÂm closer to doing. IâÂÂm certainly open to ideas, suggestions, & sooooo very much appreciate you two's encouragement & acknowledgement! Meyer Mike, I need to backup & say special Thanks, lovely compliment you gave earlier, I flew right by, didnâÂÂt mean to. & I really see the white stem now. Maybe I should just share the trio amongst those here by swap, no issue whatsoever >)

After researching, found out these are Box Elder bugs and as they mature, they turn black and red in color and I think they fly though I haven't seen one in the air yet. I sprayed them with 2/3 parts detergent to water and it killed them instantly - it gets to their nervous system that quick. Not sure that I got all of them though as I saw just a few roaming the same front garden today. Apparently, we didn't have a large infestation, but I did see one in the backyard garden where no mulch was spread so those suckers must be prominent in this area. I hear they get into the house through cracks and crevices. But, they won't enter here as long as I can help it.

Thanks for the tip...entomology not one of my strengths-nor is gardening, actually.Never would've known any name for it without looking it up. Just a novice, enjoying the benefits of Garden Web's members' experience. Lots of pest issues this year for some reason. Have had to search for help alot this month- so glad I found this site. Anyway, I just thought it was pretty as well, and figured I'd post its picture. Thanks again!

Ken's not a yeller, just a huge fan of punctuation. I think he was trying to entertain everyone with a pic of a strange critter and plausible guess since the original pic went AWOL, which happens to a lot of people. And I think this is why... When you "browse" a picture to show, then click "preview," the pic info is no longer in the box next to the browse button at the bottom. So if you edit your comments again and click preview, the picture is gone. I suspect that's what happened. When I'm using that, I copy what gets put in the box after clicking browse so I have it ready to paste if I notice I need to edit again after clicking preview. They've made that tricky because clicking in the box will open the browse window again. You have to let that happen, then click cancel, or start there for your browse so your cursor is in the box after you come back from the browse. Now you can use the keyboard to select and copy what's there. Or just know you need to browse your pic again after each edit.