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jamievoetsch
Medford, OR
July 4, 2006 2:22 AM Post #2464704
| Is this a green ladybug? Does anyone know the exact name of it? 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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TomH3787
Raleigh, NC (Zone 7b)
July 4, 2006 2:34 AM Post #2464745
| Spotted cucumber bug - a very nasty pest. |
jamievoetsch
Medford, OR
July 4, 2006 2:42 AM Post #2464768
| Do they ruin plants? |
Carter
Houston, TX (Zone 9b)
July 4, 2006 2:47 AM Post #2464793
| Yes. They eat them like crazy. And it seems Brugmansia flowers are a delicacy for them. |
jamievoetsch
Medford, OR
July 4, 2006 2:55 AM Post #2464814
| I guess I should quite putting them BACK on the plants when they try to fly away... :)
Thanks for the help. |
ceejaytown
The Woodlands, TX (Zone 9a)
July 5, 2006 4:32 AM Post #2468843
| jamie - The spotted cucumber beetle has made the list of the 10 worst insect pests, because it is so numerous and because it feeds on over 200 kinds of plants - doesn't just eat cucumbers. Its larva is called the southern corn rootworm - guess where it feeds... Give it the two-brick treatment.
CJ |
Lenka_
Princeton, TX (Zone 8a)
July 5, 2006 5:06 AM Post #2468910
| About two month ago, I too realized that this was not a yellow ladybug... and the worst thing was that this bug has eaten about every flower in my garden...they love yellow flowers and I just bought Brugmansia and have discovered they will not let it bloom - it looks horrible!!
Since my discovery I've been giving them the "shoe-and-the-fence" treatment... On the first day I collected about 20 of them in a plastic bag! Those small blue bags I take with me when I walk my dog work very well! And you get better at catching them too..:) I am a pro now, he-hee - this is sad... Picking them did work a little, but did not eliminate them completely.
I am trying not to use any chemicals in my garden so I have been trying to get rid of them by other means - not much success so far. I even got a yellow sticky trap from an online garden store.. After a few days I got just one bug... As I later discovered they were able to get out of the sticky trap and kept going after my plants!!!!
If anyone knows a non-chemical solution that will help at leat decrease their population - your input would be much appreciated! |
ceejaytown
The Woodlands, TX (Zone 9a)
July 5, 2006 5:21 AM Post #2468931
| Here's a article for you. It does recommend pyrethrin or spinosad, but both are considered "organic". They have a low residual effect. IOW, they don't remain in the environment long. |
Magpye
NW Qtr, AR (Zone 6a)
July 5, 2006 4:12 PM Post #2470117
| .. ceejaytown ..
You mentioned an 'article' -?-
- Magpye |
ceejaytown
The Woodlands, TX (Zone 9a)
July 5, 2006 4:34 PM Post #2470219
| Rats! Thanks, Magpye. One more time:
http://www.ghorganics.com/CucumberBeetles.htm
Found another - long, but very thorough.
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/cucumberbeetle.html#Organic
This message was edited Jul 5, 2006 11:43 AM |
Magpye
NW Qtr, AR (Zone 6a)
July 5, 2006 5:48 PM Post #2470521
| And lookey there .. two, for the price of one ... (heehee)
(am merely luvinly teasin' ya, cj)
((thank you))
- Magpye
This message was edited Jul 5, 2006 12:49 PM |
ceejaytown
The Woodlands, TX (Zone 9a)
July 5, 2006 6:38 PM Post #2470719
| Did you notice the time on that empty post? I think I was trying to sneak one more thing in before my DH caught me on the computer so late. Yeah, that's it. Couldn't be my mind or lack of, could it? |
Magpye
NW Qtr, AR (Zone 6a)
July 5, 2006 6:44 PM Post #2470738
| (((shhhhhhh .. them fellers are sneaky, ya know))
Who do ya think us femalurns learned it from .. (LOL)
- Magpye |
ceejaytown
The Woodlands, TX (Zone 9a)
July 5, 2006 6:49 PM Post #2470768
| LOL I'll be typing away and suddenly, from the door (behind me) I'll hear "CJ!" and jump right out of my skin! And then I have to explain that I was coming right to bed - just finishing up a last sentence...and shut the thing down fast. Yep, that's sneaky. |
White_Hydrangea
Aurora, CO (Zone 5a)
July 6, 2006 5:31 AM Post #2473271
| Sometimes I'm glad I just live with my cats! |
ceejaytown
The Woodlands, TX (Zone 9a)
July 6, 2006 3:30 PM Post #2474191
| There are benefits both ways. ;-) |
cmccrell
Honeoye Falls, NY
July 11, 2006 2:07 PM Post #2492743
| I'd try one of the soap and oil sprays like Veggie Pharm or Flower Pharm. It works on japanese beetles, might work here. You have to keep at it, though. |
