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Re: A June Bug???! Cicada?????

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Well I think you are right. These critters look just like June bugs: the
adult kind that are all over your patio at night. Just a bit paler than the
usual medium brown. And I haven't been here long enough to know if cicadas
live locally. So it's off to the extension agent with my prize in a jar.

Or hey, I could just empty each of the jars of killer stuff that are in my
basement and dump them all over my ard, figuring that one of them will just
kill the bugs off and not bother to figure out if they are hurting
anything. :-) just kidding!

At 4:03 PM -0800 3/13/00, Patricia Santhuff wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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>At 04:49 PM 3/13/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>>
>>About June bugs and cicadas: as someone else mentioned, June bugs (like
>>all beetles) have a full four-stage life cycle, with egg, larva, pupa,
>>and adult, none of which look anything like any of the others.
>
>Ah, yes, but IS Katherine's insect a June bug or a cicada? Do we know?
>That's what she was asking, primarily. First identify, then decide what to
>do about it, if anything.
>
>My primary question when I read Katherine's post was would a June bug, or
>any other kind of beetle (or even a cicada) be hibernating in the soil in
>the ADULT stage at this time of the year? Perhaps so, I don't know, but it
>seems unlikely to me (who is woefully short on entymology, tho some better
>at etymology <g>).  I'd have thought you'd find them in grub stage in
>mid-March.
>
>I'd say this is another great way one's local county extension agent could
>be of help. Katherine might be able to describe the insect over the phone,
>or perhaps bundle a few in bubble wrap and whisk them off USPS. Or take
>them by in person and and leave with an armload of publications. <g>
>
>Patricia
>West Georgia, Zone 7b
>whose compost and garden soil are yielding the occasional truly ugly grub
>(friend or foe? Wish I knew what a Japanese bettle grub looks like for
>sure). They get tossed into the next door neighbor's pasture, to fend for
>themselves. Oh shoot -- I should be sharing them with the CHICKENS! Duh!
>Well, I certainly will hereafter.
>
>
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