RE: [CH] Bugs
RLRuss (rlruss@mindspring.com)
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:12:35 -0400
Hi all,
My wife, who has a number of books about plants and insects together with
some experience, ID'ed your critter as an immature Nymph assassin
bug..apparently they show up to hunt other bugs, ie., aphids, and they are
not bad bugs to have - they kill other less desirable critters. If these are
assassin bugs, you have something else that attracts 'em. I zoomed in on
your pics as much as I could; any way you can get a HiRes closeup pic so we
can confirm?
RLRuss
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com
[mailto:owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com] On Behalf Of Jim Graham
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 6:53 PM
To: chile-heads@globalgarden.com
Subject: Re: [CH] Bugs
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 05:30:48PM -0500, JohnT wrote:
> Oh... I've seen those! I get them on my squash plants (not growing this
> year). Get them in the color you show and also a light grayish body with
> dark legs. Is the body shape like this...
> http://www.fototime.com/9FF3C693B156A1D/orig.jpg ?
No, not at all. The body shape is very similar to that of an ant, but
the abdomen is really, really fat.
'ang on, I'm going to see if I can spot them again and try to count legs
before the mosquitos eat me alive....
Ugh...what's left of me, minus blood, is back. No bugs out there except
for two stink bugs that *WERE* (until I knocked 'em away) on one of my
habanero plants. The mystery bugs disappeared this afternoon, just like
they did by this time yesterday.
Later,
--jim
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