Re: now Kitty's bug - was-Yellowjackets

Kitty-can you send me that picture? I missed it somehow. Probably
accidentally deleted it. I've got my AHS pest book and few others I could
check. One of the classes at TTU is an intro to entomology class that I'm
dying to take. I can get started with your bug.
A

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] now Kitty's bug - was-Yellowjackets


> Oh, bless you, Jim!  I imagined that everyone thought I was making this
up.
> Maybe you can get a photo of him.
> Kitty
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James R. Fisher" <garrideb@well.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 6:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] now Kitty's bug - was-Yellowjackets
>
>
> > Kitty wrote:
> > > I doubt it's a snack of any kind, and maybe/maybe not the cocoon thing
> > > either.  I've seen these on 3 plants in 2 years and one individual one
> over
> > > several week's time. (shoulda killed the little bugger instead of
> observing)
> > > The cotton is attached to every one and never shed while alive.  The
> dead
> > > ones I photographed didn't show the cotton.
> > >
> > > Kitty
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Donna" <justme@prairieinet.net>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:20 PM
> > > Subject: RE: [CHAT] now Kitty's bug - was-Yellowjackets
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Could the cotton they are carrying be some kind of a cocoon they are
> > >>emerging from? Or as in a spider wrapping up and taking a midnight
snack
> > >>with them?
> > >>
> > >>Just a guess!
> > >>
> > >>Donna
> > >>Who thinks she needs to google lacebug and see what we are yapping
> > >>about!
> > >>
> >
> > >>>My 35mm photos came back and those pics were equally as clear as
those
> >
> > I posted from the digital.  I showed it to the Hort Ed who said it still
> > looked like a lacebug.  So I googled it again and the pics came up in
> > a different order and this time, yes, I saw photos that looked like my
> > bug.mthe thing that I can't match up, can't find a picture of, is the
> > cotton they carry behind them.  That's why it's hard for me to be
> condfident in
> > the lacebug ID.
> > Kitty
> >
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > I saw an exact duplicate this afternoon on a Dahlia shoot. Small, grey,
> > helmet-shaped, with the trailing cotton tuft. And I couldn't get aholt
of
> > it either.
> > -jrf
> > -- 
> > Jim Fisher
> > Vienna, Virginia USA
> > 38.9 N 77.2 W
> > USDA Zone 7
> > Max. 105 F [40 C], Min. 5 F [-15 C]
> >
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