That’s a Japanese Beetle. They’ll chew on the foliage of your plants and are considered a pest. I deal with them, too, but generally don’t do much about them and they don’t cause too much damage.
So I don’t think it is. I think it’s larger and differently colored and shaped. My husband put it into some AI thing and it came up with another name that I can’t remember. Something that specifically likes to suck the sap of citrus trees that picture is on a pink lemon.
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June Bug, June Beetle, etc…
Usually not as numerous as Japanese Beetles but they’ll at least put a hurt on blackberry fruit. Probably eat a lot of other stuff too..
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Yes that’s it! Thank you.
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doesnt look like the june bugs we have here. ours have a more rounded head and the body is more narrow with a dep brown coppery color. ive never seen them eating my plants but the grubs eat grass roots and some times fruit and tree roots. maybe a different species of them from mine?
I probably should have said “Green June Bug/Beetle” earlier.
Quick Google search:
- Green June Beetles (Cotinis nitida and Cotinis mutabilis): These are large (about 1 inch long), day-flying beetles. They have a dull, velvety metallic green shell with gold or tan borders, and an iridescent bright green underside. They are most active during the day, occasionally swarm in yards, and are known for eating ripening fruits. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
- Brown June Beetles (Genus Phyllophaga): These are the most common June bugs in the US. They range from reddish-brown to almost black and are smaller to about an inch long. They are strictly nocturnal and famously attracted to porch lights. Their larvae (grubs) are known for eating grass roots and damaging lawns. [1, 2, 3, 4]
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Is this a beneficial insect or should I squash it. I went through a lot of these posts and couldn’t find it. It probably was already identified but please do it again it was on my small peach tree. I hope the picture is clear enough for an ID.
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have seen a few of these guys flying connected to each other. have a yellow/orange patch in the middle underside of their bodies.
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Thanks Hillbillyhort It looks like it might kill peach tree borers.
Only insect around here that resembles that is much hairier, which we call robber flies. A generalist predator: scary looking but I’ve never had an unfortunate incident with them. In my region they are strictly woodland critters. For lack of anything definitive (their are others on this thread much better informed than I) you might watch for them and see what they do. You might find they are on your side, eating something you want controlled.
For instance: I found an assassin bug eating a stink bug recently. My kinda bug!
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Closely resembles one of the Mydas fly species.
Your flies lack the thoracic hump of robber flies.
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i think it is some form of mydas fly. thanks!
Mydas fly - new to me entirely. Learned sumfin tuday.
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Mydas Fly! I’ve seen only one but it was huge, loud and pretty cool. Beneficial larvae if I remember
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Looks like tent catapillar
I was staking up my apple grafts and saw these little things hanging down. I always check for aphids and the like and was ready to give them a squirt of Neem and thought I’d do a Google search first. Turn out that they are eggs of lacewings. So I left them alone.
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Is this a canker on my Superior Plum? If so, I assume I must remove this scaffold since it essentially goes down to the central leader?
Looks like it to me. You could scrape at the affected area and see what the cambium looks like underneath.
Also issues often extend further on the interior than the exterior, it may be in the trunk as well
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