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The latest Bug Parade

I thought I had plenty of bugs and slugs and creepy crawlies to show off with when I did this post and then, (were they feeling left out?) a whole new army of bugs moved in …

I took myself off to the book store and came back armed with what I thought was a book about local bugs – alas, it was a British book (yes I know, I’m blonde and not always very bright – my excuse is it was the ONLY “bug” book available at Exclusive and I assumed it would be a local book, plus, I was in a hurry!). So I’m no wiser than I was last time I posted on bugs in my garden.

Here are the latest summer invaders!

[one_half]Sun tanning on the Philodendron[/one_half]

[one_half_last]His buddy perched opposite[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Climbing up the Gloriosa shoot[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Beautiful neon colours[/one_half_last]

[one_half]One of my favourite sights[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Another crawly[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Uh Oh! Whats have we here …[/one_half]

[one_half_last]One of the baddies eating flowers[/one_half_last]

[one_half]So much leaf damage on the Aggies[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Yikes! He was Huge![/one_half_last]

The last one was dragged in by my cat and I let nature take its course – Dexter finished him off. The bad news I guess is that if there is one of these there are probably lots more.

Happy Gardening
xxx

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Bug parade

So with the summer weather also come the summer bugs. And there seems to be no shortage of bugs and creepy-crawlies in my garden.

I had this grand idea that I would live and let live and that they would control each other. After this bug parade I’m having second thoughts. I’m not at the stage yet where I’m getting the sprayer out but I am hand picking some of them when I see them and squashing, drowning or throwing over the wall into … well you know where 🙂

The Gecko of course is most welcome … I have two at the moment. One lives in the back veggie garden (its nice and hot there) and one lives on our front patio, in the brick-work somewhere. They are cute and I love seeing them, but they are very shy and sensitive to sound (and I constantly have 2 noisy dogs in tow) so it’s not easy to photograph them in a beautiful setting. Wall shots are the best I can get – I will try to do better in Summer when they come out of hiding for a bit longer.

Here is the collection of bugs that have been parading around my garden this week …

The Good …

and all the rest …

[one_half]Lovely markings[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Eating the Habaneros[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Yikes, they look awful[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Double yuck![/one_half_last]

[one_half]On the Mandevilla[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Seems to have lost a leg[/one_half_last]

[one_half]One of the good guys[/one_half]

[one_half_last]And the not so good …[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Lots of these on the roses![/one_half]

[one_half_last]Found the culprit![/one_half_last]

[one_half]Lots of babies or what is this?[/one_half]

[one_half_last]A whole family of them[/one_half_last]

Whats eating your garden?

Happy gardening
xxx

Tags aphids, beetle, Bugs & Pests, gecko, stink bug

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Is it a Stinker or a Lady?

Post author By Christine
Post date November 12, 2011
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Today I found the most amazing thing … hundreds of these tiny beetle-like bugs just emerging from cocoons and waking up on one of the Nandina domestica shrubs. I was ambling around the garden late this afternoon after a hard days garden “clean up” and looking for blooms to capture for Bloom Day coming up next week, when my eye spotted these baby beetles through the camera.

Although they are visible to the naked eye (they are about 2mm round at the time I saw them), I only spotted them as I was focussing in on the white blossoms on the Nandina as the beetles are still very tiny. I watched one emerge from its cocoon and I took hundreds of photos of it – regrettably not one of them is publishable, so I didn’t manage to get it on film.

I’ve been to Bugguide.net and Whatsthatbug.com and I can’t make out what these are, but I am guessing they are either stink bug nymphs or lady beetles (hopeful!). I googled Stink Bug cocoon and stink bug chrysalis and it seems like Stink Bugs come from eggs, very green eggs. So I’m really not sure what these are. You can click on the photos to see the large versions.