RE: Nice Bug table
Hi this sounds like a bug called a brown stink bug, the adults are shield
shaped, some green, tan, brown, or gray, 1/2" bugs; most species smooth but
some are rough textered and spiney. They are shaped like a coat of arms.
These bugs and their nymphs suck plant sap from leaves, flowers, buds, and
fruit. Squash, beans, peas, corn, tomatoes, and peaches. When they feed
on the fruit their puncture wounds causes scarring and dimpling. Very
noticable on tomatoes. They do not inject a toxin when feeding like the
dreaded squash bug, that causes wilting and drying up of the leaf. But if
you have a lot of them feeding on your plant it could cause problems of
wilting and dying off of the leaf. They prefer tomatoes and corn over
pumpkin plants, at least they did in my garden. Carbaryl, and pyrethrin
will kill them nicely. Adults overwinter in weed patch areas, and females
lay 300-500 eggs each when weather warms up, eggs hatch in a week, and
nymphs develop into adult stage in 5 weeks. 2 or more gen. a year.
Control weeds around garden and plant small flowering plants to attract
parasitic wasps and flies that help control these and other bad bugs in
your garden.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peneilope@aol.com [SMTP:Peneilope@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 11:06 PM
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: Nice Bug table
Oh! You scared me for a minute there! Ha ha. I went to your site and
looked
and my little bug isn't as long as the one in your picture. Mine is shaped
more like a "coat of arms". At first glance when I first spotted it, I
thought it was an overgrown tick. Underneath my bug it looks like the
underside of a "rollie pollie" except mine only has the 6 legs. I live on
the central coast in California if that matters?
Karri
Peneilope@aol.com
n a message dated 8/31/99 8:44:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
rocky.r@cyber-quest.com writes:
Peneilope@aol.com
<< That brown stink bug is also known as the dreaded Squash Bug... To see a
pic, and
to see its eggs, go to my update page, and clickon the bug and egg
connections...
Or just stop by my patch anytime between themonths of June and September
to
see
plenty of them!!
>>
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