Found I new bug I haven't seen, hard shelled.
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Are those wing covers on its back, or is that just coloring that makes it look like that?
It sort of looks like a beetle in the first pic. In the second pic it almost looks like a really fat, round aphid. Just spitballin' here...
It sort of looks like a beetle in the first pic. In the second pic it almost looks like a really fat, round aphid. Just spitballin' here...
No idea, never seen one before.
So leave them as is, it likes the same result, Thanks Geonerd.
If you see a hole in the brown Aphids back side,it's Aphid wasps.
I introduced the Wasps years ago.
Haven't seen an Aphid since then.
If you buy them.
When you open the bottle,they swarm your plants.
REALLY cool when I had several Lemon plants HEAVILY infested with Aphids.
The videos are cool,but actually watching them is better.
Also,ants don't hang out anymore-no more Aphids to milk for sugar juice.
I introduced the Wasps years ago.
Haven't seen an Aphid since then.
If you buy them.
When you open the bottle,they swarm your plants.
REALLY cool when I had several Lemon plants HEAVILY infested with Aphids.
The videos are cool,but actually watching them is better.
Also,ants don't hang out anymore-no more Aphids to milk for sugar juice.
smokemaster said:
They occur naturally here, generally showing up in early April. There's always a period of a week or two when the aphids run amok, multiplying like mad and sucking the life out of my young plants. Just when I start to get well and truly worried, the wasps show up to save the day. Within another week, the slaughter is well underway, with dozens/hundreds of cocoons littering the leaves. The aphid population eventually stabilizes at tolerable level that supports a small population of wasps. Lacewings start to dominate the predator population by July, and they persist well into the winter months.
Geonerd said:
F**k Azamax!
Took inventory and theirs only one plant with aphids and it has one of those "wasps" on it. 
I brought 5 plans in to over winter. I trimmed the plant down, including the roots. Then soaked the entire plant in azamax and got all of the dirt out of the root system. Then planted in clean soil. I now have a large infestation and ordered some lady bugs today. Darn things!