What is it...?
Nov 5, 2014 18:36:22 #
Just outside taking a close-up of this new flower in our garden and noticed this insect...is it a baby grasshopper or something to spray before it eats my plant...?
Nov 5, 2014 18:37:51 #
This is a true bug, which means it has a proboscis for sucking plant juices. Considered a pest.
I almost recognize the flower.
I almost recognize the flower.
Nov 5, 2014 19:49:48 #
Bloom looks like an African Iris. Bug looks like a katydid but not sure, Ron. You might just want to pick it off and send it to katydid heaven. LOL
SX2002 wrote:
Just outside taking a close-up of this new flower in our garden and noticed this insect...is it a baby grasshopper or something to spray before it eats my plant...?
Nov 5, 2014 20:08:14 #
Both photos are so pretty! I know that's not why you posted them, but I'm just saying :)
Nov 5, 2014 20:37:43 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Both photos are so pretty! I know that's not why you posted them, but I'm just saying :)
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Nov 5, 2014 20:46:40 #
Dixiegirl wrote:
Katydids have chewing mouth parts. True bugs have a piercing proboscis, as seen in the second photo.Bug looks like a katydid but not sure . . .
Nov 5, 2014 23:21:14 #
You're absolutely right, Douglass. :-D
Nikonian72 wrote:
Katydids have chewing mouth parts. True bugs have a piercing proboscis, as seen in the second photo.
Nov 6, 2014 02:56:29 #
Thanks Guys...it's on my squish list next time I run across it or its friends... :lol:
Nov 6, 2014 03:08:22 #
Nov 6, 2014 04:05:56 #
I'm not partial to your bug, Ron, but the photos are great. :thumbup: :thumbup:
Nov 6, 2014 12:59:38 #
DOOK wrote:
I'm not partial to your bug, Ron, but the photos are great. :thumbup: :thumbup:
Thank you Earl... :-D
Nov 6, 2014 17:53:05 #
Douglass nailed it, as usual. You can see the black tip of the proboscis I think between the 2nd and 3rd pairs of legs. The 2 light veins on the membranous part of the wings indicates it is a leaf bug, family Miridae, which do indeed suck plant juices, but only a few of these are pests, not this one. Most are inconsequential to our worldly needs, and can just be left alone without any tangible damage.
The clarity of your pic on enlargement is amazing!
The clarity of your pic on enlargement is amazing!
Nov 6, 2014 17:56:03 #
relbugman wrote:
Douglass nailed it, as usual. You can see the black tip of the proboscis I think between the 2nd and 3rd pairs of legs. The 2 light veins on the membranous part of the wings indicates it is a leaf bug, family Miridae, which do indeed suck plant juices, but only a few of these are pests, not this one. Most are inconsequential to our worldly needs, and can just be left alone without any tangible damage.
Yeh, I won't really squish it, I'd probably never find it again anyway... :thumbup:
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