What is this insect?
Al Ro
last year
I found this in a tree in my yard behind some loose bark
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What is this insect?
Comments (1)I’m leaving this up so that it might help someone else. I just got my answer from Penn state extension. It is the nymph stage of the spotted lantern fly. Highly invasive and damaging to trees. It is treatable with pesticides and banding trees....See MoreWhat is this insect and how to get rid of it please?
Comments (20)There are two "types" of wasp spray for want of a better word. One is simply a spray. The other one that is better for nests sends out a stream that on contact produces a foam which can cover the nest. If you know where the nest is I suggest using the second. Some wasps will be missed so you may have to spray again. However this year I found a nest on a branch where the lawn person would hit it. I decided to spray and went out in late afternoon. I noticed what looked like a dark ball surrounding the nest and thought it odd. When I sprayed the wasps on the nest started crawling along the branch away from the nest. I watched one shake the foam and it appeared to wipe itself on a stem before flying away. Next day they were back. I ended up spraying for several days until they were gone. I do not know what kind of wasp they were but they made a double layered nest. They were smaller black with a white stripe on their abdomen and across their head....See MoreWhat are these insects ?
Comments (0)Very tiny, pin head size or smaller. There will be clouds of them over my lawn in the hottest time of the day. When you walk towards them them they will move away. Not gnat or fly like, they don't go for the ears, eyes or nose. I was maybe 5 feet away from the bugs in the pic. The picture has a less dense sample of the "clouds" that are usually there....See MoreWhat kind of insect is this tiny orange bug??
Comments (4)This? https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.php?identification=Orange-Assassin-Bug https://bugoftheweek.com/blog/2017/10/24/bugs-in-orange-and-black-three-assassins-milkweed-assassin-bug-izelus-longipesi-orange-assassin-bug-ipselliopus-barberii-and-wheel-bug-iarilus-cristatusi...See More
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last yearAl Ro
last yearThey are about a half inch in length, does this help you identify my tree‘s infestation?
Also interesting to note, after I knocked a couple out of the tree bark, they both had an “instinct“ to go back to the tree and start climbing up the bark.
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