The M@%$#^ F$%#er Bit Me!

[7Enigma]

Are you taking that pic with a camera phone? Either that or your camera isn't focused well (put it on a tripod or at least put your hand on a steady surface). Most cameras (even cheap digitals) have some sort of macro setting that will allow for focusing under 12 inches.

You sure its not a lightning bug?

 

[skinfiddler]

If it is a Ladybug (couldn't tell from the image) , they eat lots of aphids.

 

[karbinator]

Ladybug?
They do occur in colors other than red, and they can bite...

ETA: Biting ladybugs link

I vote yes to ladybug as well.
The USA has been invested with an asian version
that matures to a yellow and black poka dotted
lady bug, and nest in homes on the ceiling corners
throught winter. THey are the only variety that bite...
similar to a ant sting.

 

[Aleforge]

I vote yes to ladybug as well.
The USA has been invested with an asian version
that matures to a yellow and black poka dotted
lady bug, and nest in homes on the ceiling corners
throught winter. THey are the only variety that bite...
similar to a ant sting.

Lady bugs, even asian ones have small antenna. That thing has long antenna that match up with various leaf beetles.

I made this picture up for everyone saying its an "Asian Ladybug"

 

[Chriso]

Funny that you found the bottom-right picture, that's where I'm at, and was just thinking of taking the pic from the OP over to the dept of Entomology to ask them to ID it.

 

[DUCCCC]

Seeing Taipan's pics, it looks to be a dead ringer for the cucumber beetle to me, but mother nature has a way of making things mimic other things that always "throws a spanner in the works"...

 

[Homercidal]

Look slike what we called a potato bug when I was a kid. An online search tells me that we were wrong, and it should be called a potato beetle, as the potato bug is also known as a jerusalem cricket.

At any rate, a better picture would be nice, if you could get a "macro" shot even better. But what I could tell from that pic it looks like a potato beetle, or maybe false potato beetle, but not as much as the real one.

 

[rabidgerbil]

I think that they only truly safe thing for you to do is to dig up your rhizomes and send them to me so that the little vermin can not continue to feed on them.

 

[FishinDave07]

I might try to get another pic before the slaughter.

I think that they only truly safe thing for you to do is to dig up your rhizomes and send them to me so that the little vermin can not continue to feed on them.

You know, that was exactly what i was going to do , but instead of a rhizome...how about some steamy manure, fresh from my 2-yr old :cross:

 

[Chris_Dog]

I might try to get another pic before the slaughter.



You know, that was exactly what i was going to do , but instead of a rhizome...how about some steamy manure, fresh from my 2-yr old :cross:

Very Funny!

 

[MVKTR2]

As a bona-fied son of the south, having stomped through the garden for hours on end, and having parents in the wholesale nursery business for 17 years I can say with conviction, "you sir were bitten by a potato bug"! Being unsure of thier entomology I'm not sure how harmful they are, but I do remember pawpaw not liking them, but not being too terribly worried by them! Lady bugs good... potato bug bad!

Schlante,
Phillip

WHOOHOO!!! 100 posts!!!!!!

 

[Big "A"]

If you are unsure buy some NEEM oil concentrate and a spray bottle. 1T/Qt and you'll have dead beetles to throw into the compost pile :rockin:

 

[Chriso]

"It's a neem plant, Professor."
"Oui. It is, but how did you know that, Silas?"
"I had this nasty-ass rash once. Put a little neem plant on it, cleared it up in an hour."
-How High (Method Man, Redman)

 

[FishinDave07]

As a bona-fied son of the south, having stomped through the garden for hours on end, and having parents in the wholesale nursery business for 17 years I can say with conviction, "you sir were bitten by a potato bug"! Being unsure of thier entomology I'm not sure how harmful they are, but I do remember pawpaw not liking them, but not being too terribly worried by them! Lady bugs good... potato bug bad!

Schlante,
Phillip

WHOOHOO!!! 100 posts!!!!!!

I hear ya brotha! They won't be biting anything when i'm done with them

If you are unsure buy some NEEM oil concentrate and a spray bottle. 1T/Qt and you'll have dead beetles to throw into the compost pile :rockin:

Cool, i'll look into that