Re: Insect Identification

No, but good try.  I had a call late this afternoon from the county extension office.  They had a workshop over there for 50 master gardeners and none of them had ever seen this insect before.  They checked all their references.  This tiny little creature has caused quite a stir.  It is very beautiful and a social insect...they moved together as one group, rather than all over the bush.  They are gone now, though.  We check this afternoon.
    About the picture, the red on our beetle--I think it was determined that it is in the beetle family--is a cherry red and just the lower part of the wing case.  They are very delicate...look like juveniles.
 
Lynn
----- Original Message -----
From: d*@gte.net
To: perennials@mallorn.com
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: Insect Identification

Lynn, is this close?  This site has a lot of pictures, but unless you
have the latin name for your bug you have to look at a LOT of
'thumbnails', which might be okay, too.
I've found the names and friend or foe info for a lot of bugs in my
garden this way.
http://www.ent3.orst.edu/kgphoto/KGCode_Detail.cfm?ID=2424

Lynn Lamb wrote:

> Good evening all,    Does anyone know of a good insect identification
> site online?  We found a beautiful insect on the leucothoe today, put
> some in a jar and took them to one of our favorite landscape
> nurseries.  They did not know what it was and I would like to identify
> it.  There does not seem to be any damage to the plant, so it may be a
> beneficial.  The insects have 6 legs, a beetle type body--bright red
> lower 'shell' with an iridescent green stripe down the middle,
> antenna, a sucker-tube mouth, and are about 1/4" long.  Any
> ideas? Thanks,Lynn LambZone 7bBelmont, North Carolina

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index