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Red ants with long black legs???
- Thread starter JADOZE
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I'm thinking milkweed assassin bugs. They are supposed to be beneficial, eating aphids and such.
Interesting... I have a bunch on some milk weed here, thought they were stink bugs and sprayed them... DOH, gonna leave them be now, might even move a few to the garden...
weirddd.
I think I saw them on one of AJ's earlier posts, which he quoted:
"I have some guardian angels too...they hatched just a few days ago and are about 1/2" long now...hoping to get a resident population"
Check them out to see if it's them:
http://www.thehotpepper.com/topic/22193-overwintered-scorpions/
"I have some guardian angels too...they hatched just a few days ago and are about 1/2" long now...hoping to get a resident population"
Check them out to see if it's them:
http://www.thehotpepper.com/topic/22193-overwintered-scorpions/
Those are baby praying mantises AJ posted in those pics.
millworkman
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Look like assassin bugs to me too.
Thanks, I was wondering what they were!!
Assassin bugs they kill aphids worms etc....
Cool, we left them alone, I don't want kill anything unless its harmful
yeah i have them too, they start out orange and turn red when they get older. heres my post with some pics. http://www.thehotpepper.com/topic/22080-can-anyone-identify-this-bug/
They look like hatchling/1st instar "Wheel Bugs" I believe the latin name is Arilus cristatus. They love to eat hornworms!
AlabamaJack
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they are beneficial but if pushed will bite the kaka out of you...I got bitten by an adult last fall...
http://www.thehotpepper.com/topic/18865-got-bit-by-an-assassin-bug/page__p__399982__hl__%2Bassassin+%2Bbug__fromsearch__1#entry399982
http://www.thehotpepper.com/topic/18865-got-bit-by-an-assassin-bug/page__p__399982__hl__%2Bassassin+%2Bbug__fromsearch__1#entry399982
Well since I read they can be omnivores when milk weed isn't around. I tapped a few off in a cup and put on some of my starts that have some aphids in. There on a table off the ground in the yard, so the natural predators don't go up there. The rest in the ground or on it are fine. Well When i came back home that evening i saw one workin every leaf at high speed lookin for a snack. Never knew what they were, or how well they worked. I did a holocaust dusting of DE to see if I can keep the snails at bay, never bothered me before but now those damn things are every where this year, maybe just a cycle I suppose. 