pests New Bugs

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...
 
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.
 
smokemaster said:
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.
 
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:
 
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.
 
     F**k Azamax!
 
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!
 
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