Thank you guys for all your help, I really appreciate it! I am not spraying any insecticides and I have so many different bugs showing up all the time, I rather like it., but today I have something that is really frightening me and that is some kind of bees or hornets that are making their nests in the ground right near my roses, they attacked me twice and I had to run into the house like a lunatic. My grandson is coming tomorrow to stay for a few days and he loves to play outside, I just don't know what I am going to do, I just might have to spray something near the holes these bees are making, I hate to do it but I might have no choice. They are very big bees too!

Earwigs. At the first sign of problem, this pest is number one on the list. Try this; put a short lenght of hose...about 12 to 18 inches in the vicinity of the plants. Early in the a.m. go out with a bucket of soapy water, lift the hose and tap it over the soap. See what falls out. Earwigs is the one big reason why I never try to take dahlia inside, they are a beggar since they hide in amongs the petals. The earwigs like it moist and munch at night, but hide during daylight hours. Trying to see them during the day is pretty well impossible. Another method if you dont have a handy hose to destroy....roll up a newspaper section....place it in the vicinity and dampen it. In the morning, go out and collect your newspaper. Sometimes too, just like catching slugs and snails, lay a board....about 6" wide...12" long near the plants. In the early morning, peek under it. They're fast movers so be prepared.

I live in on old farm land outside of Chicago. The bug was a greyish-beige and about 1 inch long. I tried to take a picture but she was laying eggs during the night, so none of the pictures came out. It was the first time I've ever even seen what kind of bug it was laying the eggs. I'll keep an eye out...if I ever see one during the day, I'll post a picture.

It's an ichneumon wasp, genus Megarhyssa. Parasitic on other woodboring larvae, such as Tremex, a large horntail wasp. Completely harmless to people. It uses the long ovipositor to lay eggs down in the tunnels of the woodboring wasp larvae, which then become food for the Megarhyssa larvae. Ain't bugs great? The link below has good pics of a different, but similar species. Tucker Here is a link that might be useful: Megarhyssa wasp