Mystery Pest (Insect)??
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Identify insect pest attracted to my sunflower plants?
Comments (2)This might help. Go here and select Insects in Category. https://www.sunflowernsa.com/gallery/default.aspx?CID=21 I don't see anything that obviously resembles your pictures, though....See MoreHow Do They Know? Insect Pests in the Rose Garden
Comments (7)Yes, rose slugs seem to me to be worse this year than last year. I think yours moved from your yard to mine! Have not seen too many aphids this year. Of course, now I have jinxed myself and they will show up in droves. The awful Hoplia beetles were just horrible this year. I hope my spraying of beneficial nematodes in the soil will help with that next year. I really seem to have had more of an issue with thirps this year. Hate those things too! I don't spray and tend to leave things along except or what I can pick off (like those Hoplia beetles), I found a baby praying mantis the other day when I was deadheading! I tried to pick him up so I could get a better look and admire him but he wasn't having any of it, unfortunately. I am also finding those invader species of large cockroaches (dead) in my yard ever since my neighbor decided to "let them be free" when they moved. They used to feed them to their reptiles. The worst bug in my yard has to be the Aedes Aegypti. I couldn't stand my yard the other day and went and deadheaded. Covered myself with clothing and the recommended lemon eucalyptus oil. Still got bit and one followed me into the house and is continuing to bite me. UGH! I have huge itchy welts everywhere--13 on my back alone! Don't recall how many on my legs, ankles, arms and feet. I do kill those things and unfortunately, the little sucker (literally) is too quick and small for me to catch. Cordisone cream is now my best friend. Yes, it is 110 degrees and I am in long sleeve shirts and long pants, double socks, gloves, hats with mosquito netting on them, etc., trying to avoid the things. I am now looking up things like the life cycle of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito to see how long that little sucker will live. Seems I have another week or so with it in the house before it goes to the big blood vein in the sky. I have no water in any of my bird baths for the birds in my yard but my neighbor just put a beautiful big one in the front yard and is keeping it filled with water. I have a feeling this is their breeding ground....See MoreBook Chapter - INSECT_PESTS_OF_ROSES_AND_THEIR_MANAGEMENT
Comments (0)See: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339781764_INSECT_PESTS_OF_ROSES_AND_THEIR_MANAGEMENT...See MoreWhat insect/pest is this?
Comments (0)I am seeing some weird growth coming out from behind a wooden shelf in my kitchen. It looks like a cocoon or a round mushroom. I tried to scrape it out with a knife but it is hard. I mean, it looks soft and gooey but it is actually hard enough to be poked with the pointy end of the knife. I scrapped it off from the wall twice but it keeps coming back. Could someone please tell me what it is and how to get rid of it? I am going to take out the shelf anyway but I don't want whatever it is to spread to other wooden things in the house. Attached are few pics....See Morehalocline
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