Re: Re: infor

They don't look to me like any pics of lace bugs I've found.  He said he
thought it was that from the appearance of their backs.  He didn't put them
under the microscope though.  Last year from the photos, he said he thought
they might be some kind of beetle. You can't hand pick these marge, I have
tried. As you approach they scurry to the other side of the stem.  If you
move to grab them they fly - extremely fast.  They look like tiny little
brown Pac-Man guys, always carrying a tuft of cotton behind them.

If I find them again I'll try another picture.  Just last month I deleted
the photos I had posted at my Yahoo site.  They were not very good anyway.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] infor


> > From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> > Right now I've got a bug here I found on one of my lilies
> > last year.  There was just one last year.  I posted pictures, also
> showed to
> > our Hort Ed.  While trying to get an ID, it destroyed the plant.
> This year
> > I found 4 of them on a Deutzia.  Snipped the whole stem, bagged it
> and took
> > it in to CES.  He said possibly lacebug, but I'm not so sure.
> ----------
> I've never heard of lace bugs on lilies - they mostly go for Azaleas
> and Pieris around here and they're pretty easy to ID if you can see
> the dratted things - their damage is also fairly easy to ID.  I must
> have missed the posting of the photo, can you put up another?  You've
> got my curiosity up:-)
>
> Have you tried Safers on it?  Hort oil?  Those are my 2 solutions for
> insects I simply have to do something about - that and hand picking,
> squashing and/or dropping into soapy water.
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
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