Garden Pests and Diseases: Good Bug or Bad?, 0 by dovey
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dovey wrote: Mornin' Debi and Night Bloom, As far as we could see there was no damage what-so-ever to the rose. I was hoping it was after the aphids and I did a Google search for "aphid predator" I'm thinking wishing and hoping and... thinking and praying... planning and dreaming (sorry I think I was channeling Dionne Warwick there for a minute) it's some kind of Assassin Bug. Looks a lot like this photo http://www.origins.tv/entomology/bugs/150/assassinbug1010.jp... Not a skiddish bug at all. Although, it wasn't fond of M and his camera and eventually flew away. We don't spray chemicals, so if it ended up a bad bug M would don his shining armor and squish'm for me. |