>Try this site for a picture of every bug known to mankind: Not hardly, there are over 4,ooo species of aphids, over 1,000 species of flea beetles, There are over 400 species of lady bugs. There are over 100,000 species of insects on this planet, only 20,000 have names Here's a partial list of moths http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/thumb/thumb.htm

They have fearsome looking jaws ("mandibles") sticking out from their heads and almost look like something left over from the movie Alien, but they are ferocious eaters of insect pests (aphids, thrips, scales, whiteflies (which the one in the picture is eating), mites, young caterpillars, etc. - if it's little enough and soft bodied, it's what's for dinner). In fact, the larvae of the green lacewing are so ravenously hungry that the mother lays the eggs on the ends of tiny strands of silk. That way if the oldest egg hatches first it doesn't automatically kill its siblings by eating them as its first meal (they eat insect eggs, too, if the eggs are soft enough for them to pierce with their mandibles). Even adult lacewings are small (no more than half an inch long from head to wing tip). Lacewing larvae are probably in many of your gardens without your even realizing they are there. They are so small and blend in so well to their surroundings you are unlikely to ever notice them unless you go out of your way to become very familiar with the smaller insects in your gardens. (If you want to find them, a good place to look for the larvae, once the weather is mild or warm, is at an aphid infestation that's been present for a couple of weeks. Obviously you may not have such an infestation on your roses (if I found such I'd wipe them out immediately with my fingers rather than let them stay there for a couple of weeks), but aphids show up on the new growth of other plants than roses. For instance, if you grow Nasturtiums in your garden you've probably seen black aphids on them before. If you don't go out of your way to wipe out those aphids that would be a good place to look for lacewing larvae, once the aphid infestation had been on the Nasturtiums for two or three weeks.)

CUCUMBER BEETLES: The little yellow beetles are probably cucumber beetles. There are two types of cucumber beetles: striped and spotted. The striped cucumber beetles are Acalymma vittatum. The adults are yellow and are about 1/4" long, although I see plenty that don't seem to get quite that long. They have black heads and 3 wide black stipes that run down their backs--actually the stripes are on their wing covers. The larvae, which you seldom see, are tiny white, skinny grubs. The striped cucumber beetle larvae often feed on the roots of your squash family plants. The spotted cucumber beetles are Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi. They are more of a yellowish-green and are about the same size as the striped beetles. They have 11 black spots on their wing covers. Their larvae are small white grubs with brown heads and brown patches on their first and last body segments. The spotted cucumber beetle larvae eat the roots of corn, so they are often referred to as southern corn rootworms. Both types of beetles will feed on many plants, including ornamental flowers, but they prefer all members of the squash family (cucurbits). They will eat both the flowers and the leaves of all cucurbits. Sometimes they attack young plants so vigorously that they kill them. On the older plants they may even gnaw holes in the stems and fruit. The spotted cucumber beetle adults overwinter in crop residue from the previous year or in mulch, leaves, etc. They generally hatch out as grubs in April and feed for 2 or 3 weeks before they pupate. With our long summers we often have multiple generations of them. The striped cucumber beetles overwinter in grass or under leaves. They are generally a little later to show up in my garden. I usually start seeing them in May. When they hatch, they live on weed pollen for 2 or 3 weeks before moving on to crop plants. They lay their eggs in the soil at the base of your plants. At least at our house they seem less prolific than the spotted ones and I think I only see a couple of generations of them every year. These are evil bugs. Not only do they eat your plants, they carry diseases like cucumber mosaic virus which they spread from plant to plant as they feed. They are incredibly hard to eradicate, especially if you garden organically. If you don't have cats, you can spray them with a pyrethrin product. Pyrethrin is toxic to cats, though. To eliminate the grubs in the ground, you can spray your soil with beneficial nematodes, but they are expensive. The best defense is a good offense with these bugs. Cover your plants with floating row cover material. (Sheer curtains can be used instead of floating row coves.) You will have to hand-pollinate, though, if you leave the plants underneath the row covers. Some people believe that having a heavy cover of straw mulch underneath the cucurbits makes it difficult for the larvae to move from plant to plant. I prefer to garden organically, but some people do choose to use chemical pesticides so I'll tell you which one is most effective in case it is an option which you wish to pursue. There is a chemical pesticide called Adios that combines a small amount of Sevin with cucurbitacins (to encourage the bugs to eat the pesticide). If you choose to use Adios or something similar, I would avoid applying it during pollination as it could kill your pollinators. TOMATOES: I hope your tomatoes will pull through and survive the wet soil. Sometimes tomatoes can be surprisingly resilient. Last year we received 9.25" of rain in one day in our part of Love County, and 8" of that fell in a 4 hour period. Because our property sits downhill from our neighbors' property, we had water draining underground for at least a month. I was sure I would lose my tomato plants. The soil had that mucky, sour smell of soil that has been too wet for too long. My tomato plants just sat there. They yellowed. They didn't grow. I was sure they would die. Finally they began growing again after maybe 3 or 4 weeks of struggling just to survive. I lost only 1 plant. I had an excellent crop. So, don't lose hope. Also, you can plant paste tomatoes anytime and still get a good crop for planting. They seem to bloom and produce well despite our heat. I have planted them as late as June or July and still had plenty of paste tomatoes.

The yellow & black ladybird is definately a goodie, they are attracted to powdery mildew because they feed on it and it's only the yellow & black ones that do eat it, most other ladybirds are predatory, except the 26-28 spot ones, they attack plants in the cucurbitacea family, that is your zucchinis, cucumbers & pumpkins etc, If you are having a problem with powdery mildew, which is caused by a fungi, there are a number of things you can do to try and prevent it from spreading, don't crowd your plants, make sure they have good air circulation around them, always water them in the morning rather than evening, and try not to wet the leaves, give the plant/plants a regular seaweed extract spray ( leaves and all with this, a morning application) and I have read that a milk mix (1 part milk to 9 parts water) regularly sprayed on young plants will help prevent it, although I haven't tried this myself, but if your plants are mature and already badly infected it maybe too late for this, I do know that the powdery mildew does not affect the fruit but it does affect the plants growth often shortening zucchini's life, but hey, the weather is beautiful so get some more seeds in, zucchinis grow and produce so fast, what are you waiting for!!!!!!!!Kindest regards, Annette.