Black bugs
Oct 15, 2021 23:22:16 #
I have a moon flower growing up a street light pole in my yard but there are little black bugs all over the flowers and I can’t identify them. Any ideas? In Missouri.
Oct 15, 2021 23:42:25 #
Oct 16, 2021 03:59:03 #
This was taken in afternoon when the moon flowers start to open. I found an article talking about bugs called Thrip and it describes it. Seems like Missouri is overrun with some tiny black bugs that bite and causes itching. Maybe this is what people are finding in their areas. Soon it will be freezing weather and that should eliminate them.
Oct 16, 2021 08:47:39 #
Grannysweet wrote:
I have a moon flower growing up a street light pole in my yard but there are little black bugs all over the flowers and I can’t identify them. Any ideas? In Missouri.
Do not know.
Oct 16, 2021 10:54:53 #
I can't identify them either. You suggested the flower closed with them in it. If so, could be they pollinate the flower.
Oct 16, 2021 10:57:56 #
Oct 16, 2021 13:13:41 #
Oct 16, 2021 17:58:40 #
Doc Mck
Loc: Terrell,Texas
Watosh wrote:
Nice.
They don’t seem to be eating the plant. They are just in the flower. Perhaps it DID close on them. I’m a gardener. The flower seems to be intact. All the bugs in this neck of the woods gather under the night lights. As do the toads, geckos and other critters that eat them.
Oct 17, 2021 00:21:29 #
Rove beetles sometimes congregate in a flower; don't know if it's a mating lek or just visiting or perhaps even feeding on the pollen? On a few of them I clearly(?) see the truncated wing-covers. Plus a fly and one other thing, a midge???
Oct 17, 2021 01:18:59 #
Hereford wrote:
I can't identify them either. You suggested the flower closed with them in it. If so, could be they pollinate the flower.
Maybe. They sure are pretty. I grew it from a seed never expecting it to grow as big as it did, halfway up the pole.
Oct 17, 2021 01:20:59 #
relbugman wrote:
Rove beetles sometimes congregate in a flower; don't know if it's a mating lek or just visiting or perhaps even feeding on the pollen? On a few of them I clearly(?) see the truncated wing-covers. Plus a fly and one other thing, a midge???
I will have to get a closer picture.
Oct 17, 2021 02:48:25 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I'll second that. It's a good EWAG if wrong.Thrips?
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