Garden Pests and Diseases: Prolific Squash Bugs, 4 by bluemerle

bluemerle wrote:
Yikes!!
They look a lot like the Leaf Footed Plant Bug that destroyed my Tomato
harvest last year. There was no way I was going to eat those tomatoes
after they were mating on the fruit and sticking their proboscis' like mouth
piece into the fruit and injecting something into it so they can suck it out!!!
And they're huge and fly!! As you can tell, I really don't like this bug.
Thank God, their massive breeding plagues don't come around very often
here in the desert of Las Vegas. However, Adults will over winter in old wood,
trash, piles of leaves, etc., so a good clean up is important.
These guys have red bodied with black legs nymphs. Kind of look like spiders.