Stink bug damage
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How was your Stink Bug Damage this year...
Comments (1)Not to rain on the party but I had zilch problems here. Others likely had some bad experiences though....See MoreStink Bug Damage
Comments (9)Gee. Wonder how they'd explain the depth of the damage then? It's well documented that stink bugs have very short snouts and that their damage only permeates the outer layers of the fruit. The pin worm possibility that missingtheobvious offered is at least a 100x more likely IMO than stinkbugs based on the pics. So while I sure don't buy it, maybe they could see something we can't see in the pics. Dave...See MoreThe First Wheel Bug Nymphs Are In The Garden
Comments (14)Insect Identification: Wheel BugKeith, It is very confusing. They absolutely are not the same. Both will bite you, but they are not doing it out of maliciousness. They are just trying to protect themselves from the Gigant Human Being they see there near them. I try to avoid sticking my hand into a plant that has a wheel bug sitting there on it, but sometimes I have to stick a hand in there and pick a tomato, and I'm just hoping the wheel bug doesn't bite me. The key way to tell an assassin bug from a wheel bug is that the wheel bug has a thing, I guess I'd call it a protuberance, that sticks out of its back....sort of like it swallowed a wheel/tire off a Hot Wheel and the wheel/tire is wedged under their skin. Well, I don't guess it is skin. Maybe what they have is a carapace? I'm not sure. Assassin bugs look very, very similar to stink bugs. I have a hard time telling them apart and really have to take the time to look at one carefully to decide what it is. I do not necessarily know the name of a good web site that is geared specifically to our region. I usually just type in the name of the insect I think I'm seeing and Google it to see photos so I can see if they match what I am seeing with my own two eyes. There are a couple of great, general-purpose websites that ID bugs. One of them is this one: Bugguide.net On the above website, you can click on the main page and get that box on the left with outline drawings of different kinds of insects. You can click on the drawing that most resembles what you're seeing, and that will lead you to pages of insects and bugs in that family that might help you find what you're seeing. Another one is this one from Texas A&M University: City Bugs Then, for some common insects found in Oklahoma, you cannot go wrong with this website from the Tulsa Master Gardeners organization: Tulsa Master Gardeners Insect Identification Now, here's a wheel bug. See the wheel on its back? It looks like a growth sort of between the bug's shoulders? On this same document, you can see some assassin bugs, like the milkweed assassin bug. Wheelbugs and Other Assassin Bugs Edited to add: Oops, this posted before I was done. I blame my fire radio/pager for going off and startling me. I wanted to add that there are many kinds of assassin bugs, and I spent a lot of time googling bugs to find IDs that matched what I was seeing in my garden for ages before I understood what all the different ones I see here look like. It took me even longer to learn how to ID the various nymphs and younger instars because the young ones do not always look the same as the mature ones. This is why I never kill any insect until I have identified it and know for sure that it is a bad guy, and not a good guy. I know people who have routinely killed wheel bugs and assassin bugs for years because they assumed they were bad guys. I don't want to be the person who does that sort of thing. Hope this helps, Dawn...See MoreStink bug damage on pole beans?
Comments (2)Basically..those spots are just scars. There's no eggs or larvae in there. Depending on how heavily bitten the beans are, you can probably just snap the brown parts out and eat the rest. As far as I know...all beans will get damage if you have stinkbugs..could be you just didn't have them earlier, or they were feeding on something else....See MorePieter zone 7/8 B.C.
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