Swamp cicada. Probably female (I think the butt is pointy enough to indicate a female?).
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Although 3-4 inches is...uh. A bit larger than Swamp cicadas normal size, which is generally "inch"-sized. Like this darling.
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Definitely a weevil of some kind. But you know. 100,000 different species
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Do weevils always mean nuking your kitchen and starting over? Or are they sometimes there for something other than all your carbs?
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
I was leaning some kind of weevil too, just hoping it isn't too invasive of one. I gotta spray some bug spray around my windows and baseboards in the new place still.
1. It's a moth.
2. Probably a tussock moth.
3. I'm thinking Pale tussock moth?
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eh, looked a picture of one and while they both look disheveled, the coloring doesn't seem to match
though the sycamore tussack looks like it might be it
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Was picking blueberries this morning and found two crazy things. First one is some kind of caterpillar. Second one seems like a caterpillar but not sure what the small white things on him are. Actually Instagram reversed the order. Any ideas?
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Save the caterpillar, wasps are terrible
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Wife googled the green guy based on the wasp mentioned. Looks like a tomato horn worm which apparently can eat an entire tomato plant in a few days! So I guess I side with the wasps on this one, blueberries are delicious.
Any idea on the things in the second picture? Baby tomato horn worms?
Unfortunately, it’s too late to save the caterpillar. Those are wasps, but wasp cocoons, not eggs. I’m going to spoil the rest of the explanation for people who might find it unpleasant.
The eggs are injected directly into the body of the caterpillar by the mother wasp. When they hatch, the larvae feed internally until they’re grown, then exit through the skin to spin their cocoons. By the time you can see evidence of the parasitism the damage is done and the caterpillar doesn’t have long to live.
The wasps in question belong to the family Braconidae (one of many parasitic wasp families) if anyone’s interested. (E: i see that Maguano pointed this out first)
It’s a gruesome lifestyle, but these wasps are absolutely essential both for nature and for agriculture. They keep herbivore numbers down and prevent them from totally running roughshod over plants.
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Well.. Okay. If they aren't the kind that Satan spawned and they eat tomato hornworms I guess I'm on board. Those are terrible too.
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It's the second, and that blueberry bush is a gonner, because yellow-necked caterpillars will strip it bare in no-time.
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Hopefully that was the only group of them. I removed them. That blueberry Bush is at least fifteen years old.
They weren’t really moving much when I found them although they had stripped their branch of leaves. Could they have been hit by the wasps?
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That seems like a huge number of them for there not to be more around.
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How do I kill lots of ants if we can’t find the nest? They are everywhere in my house and I want them dead. We’ve been looking for the best but are pretty sure it’s under the house. One by the front door one by the back door. We are on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia and they seem to be regular black ants.
How do I kill lots of ants if we can’t find the nest? They are everywhere in my house and I want them dead. We’ve been looking for the best but are pretty sure it’s under the house. One by the front door one by the back door. We are on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia and they seem to be regular black ants.
Have you tried traps? If yes, have you tried a variety of traps? I had german roaches dig in pretty hard; had to try a few different, and ostensibly equivalent, poisons before I found the magic bullet which that community responded to.
It was a little unsatisfying in that the successful result was that they were simply never seen again; and I try not think about what became of the bodies.
(Answer: Decomposed to dust and in my lungs, probably!)
Edit: Alternatively, there are ultrasonic devices you can stick in a wall socket that claim to keep ants out. We had some growing up after the exterminator failed to do so. They seemed to work.
Sprinkle or spray poison or traps around wherever they seem to be coming in and/or congregating is the general strategy. Poison can range in toxicity/efficacy from celite/borax on up to the nasty stuff, depending on what you're comfortable with.
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We had good luck with the Terro traps. It’s an open tray of poison. Ants come and fill up with it go back to the nest and feed it to each other. Can’t really use it with kids or pets though.
We had good luck with the Terro traps. It’s an open tray of poison. Ants come and fill up with it go back to the nest and feed it to each other. Can’t really use it with kids or pets though.
Yeah one trap is not enough to fill up a kid, and those things are expensive.
I'm going to claim possible success with diatomaceous earth against our ants.
Was hard to get him in focus, he was so little, bout the size of my thumbnail, and took off after I took the picture, but he was a cute little colorful guy
Fun fact: Jumping spiders never actually move more than one body length, they use their pedipalps to "pinch" the space around them and simply step across the fold.
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Found this thing this morning.
What is it?
Looks weevil-ish?
How big is it?
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That photo is it on a CD case.
I was leaning some kind of weevil too, just hoping it isn't too invasive of one. I gotta spray some bug spray around my windows and baseboards in the new place still.
I mean it was signed by the goblin from nekrogoblikon... could be either honestly.
All your carbs is the preferred option. The ones that aren't after your carbs would be eating the furniture.
we have seen him dangling off our neighbors trees twice now.
It is amazingly difficult to focus on him
extra scruffy, with two bright orange "antennae" mostly light green
2. Probably a tussock moth.
3. I'm thinking Pale tussock moth?
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though the sycamore tussack looks like it might be it
possibly some kind of wasp eggs
But yeah, it's gross.
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Any idea on the things in the second picture? Baby tomato horn worms?
Azalea caterpillar: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/azalea_caterpillar.htm (Southeast US)
Yellow-necked caterpillar: http://www.carolinanature.com/moths/datanaministra.html (Eastern US)
- A second website notes that "This insect is also destructive on the foliage of blueberry, apple, and other fruit trees."
Unfortunately, it’s too late to save the caterpillar. Those are wasps, but wasp cocoons, not eggs. I’m going to spoil the rest of the explanation for people who might find it unpleasant.
The wasps in question belong to the family Braconidae (one of many parasitic wasp families) if anyone’s interested. (E: i see that Maguano pointed this out first)
It’s a gruesome lifestyle, but these wasps are absolutely essential both for nature and for agriculture. They keep herbivore numbers down and prevent them from totally running roughshod over plants.
It's the second, and that blueberry bush is a gonner, because yellow-necked caterpillars will strip it bare in no-time.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
They weren’t really moving much when I found them although they had stripped their branch of leaves. Could they have been hit by the wasps?
another one
google thought mayfly, but doesn't seem right to me.
snakefly?
Have you tried traps? If yes, have you tried a variety of traps? I had german roaches dig in pretty hard; had to try a few different, and ostensibly equivalent, poisons before I found the magic bullet which that community responded to.
It was a little unsatisfying in that the successful result was that they were simply never seen again; and I try not think about what became of the bodies.
(Answer: Decomposed to dust and in my lungs, probably!)
Edit: Alternatively, there are ultrasonic devices you can stick in a wall socket that claim to keep ants out. We had some growing up after the exterminator failed to do so. They seemed to work.
Yup, agreed.
Yeah one trap is not enough to fill up a kid, and those things are expensive.
I'm going to claim possible success with diatomaceous earth against our ants.