Or how about this one? Brady
Lack of spines makes Yellow Bear more likely than the Sycamore. dutch-s where are you located?
North Florida. Zone 8-B
Soldier beetle larvae.
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This is on a mulberry. Itās spreading fast. Anyone know what it is? I will try to blast it off with a hose tomorrow and apply need oil.
I had a Anna Apple that looked like that. Copper did the job on mine.
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Two bugs I just found on my tangerine tree.
This ugly guy:
And this almost as ugly guy. I thought he might be an assassin bug, but it doesnāt look like it. Do I need to go back and squish him?
Iām not sure about the top photo,but number two looks like a Stinkbug. Brady
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Top photo is Orange dogā¦ Monach butterfly caterpillar. Second photo looks like brown marmorated stink bug.
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Thank you! Iāll have to go see if heās still around this afternoon and then remove him.
Glad I squished the Orange Dog, Iāve seen the occasional one around. This guy had already chewed up a few leaves, Iāll have to go back and check for more as my citrus trees are too small to let these guys go unchecked. Itās a shame that they target citrus, they are a striking looking butterfly.
Itās actually a swallowtail not a monarch. I donāt know why I said monarchā¦must be because I have several around right now. Good luck with your trees. I have over 50 citrus in the ground in zone 8a/b. Have to do a lot of winter protection.
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The āOrange Dogā is the common name for a Giant Swallowtail caterpillar.
The stinkbug above is not the BMSB. It is very similar to the Rough Stink Bugs in the genus Brochymena. They appear bumpy and bark-like.
I picked off two more today, one was pretty big and the other somewhat smaller. When pressed, they did stick out their forked ātongueā. Rather interesting to watch. I left them in the middle of the yard for the birds.
I cleaned this off with a hard blast of water. I still donāt know what it is.
It looks like some kind of fungal growth? You can sometimes get fungal blooms, the conditions are perfect so it multiplies. I get these bright yellow blooms in my mulch sometimes.
I had a small amount of it last year on a different mulberry and thought it was scale. I looked at it closer this year and agree it wasnāt scale but most likely a fungus. Happy that it came off easy with water from a house. Iāll spray some copper later when dormant.
Found this guy in my garden the other day, he was huge! Left him on the patio table, a couple of hours later he was goneā¦
I think that is probably woolly aphid. Fungus would be doing serious damage and need 100% humidity to have coverage like that.
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