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  1. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Good guys or bad guys? I found them congregating on the Dill out back this morning.

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    Good or bad? ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden )
     
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    waretrop Strong Ash Plants Contributor

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    Bet it's an Assassin Bug.....
     
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    cherylad Countess of Cute-ification Plants Contributor

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    I see a few of them also.
    Are Assassins good or bad?
     
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    waretrop Strong Ash Plants Contributor

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    Or it's a leaf-footed stink bug nymphs. That will kill tomatoes.

    Better picture please?????
     
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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I vote for leaf footed stink bug nymphs too. I hope your going to get rid of them. Nasty little beasties.
     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Yep, that sure looks like my critters. Time to eradicate!!

    I do have two volunteer tomato plants not far from where they were and this year I want some tomatoes soooo.
    they were all still sitting on the dill, I caught them in a zip lock bag, closed it and beat them flat with a heavy object. Now they are in the trash can.
     
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    dooley Super Garden Turtle

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    Sounds like a good solution to me!

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    Tooty2shoes Hardy Maple

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    Those bad bugs sure are neat looking. Glad you zipped them out of your garden. :stew1:
     
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    cherylad Countess of Cute-ification Plants Contributor

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    How can you tell the difference from the Assassin and the Leaf footed? They look so similar
     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    All the photos of Assassin bugs showed them with striped legs but the Leaf footed has solid black like the bugs I found.
     
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    Miss Toni, mistress of garden junque and assassin of ugly bugs! Way to go, girl.
     
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    Haha You kill me, well actually you killed them with quite enthusiastic imagination I might say! :)
     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    The Organic way!! ;)
     
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