With plantings comes critters....Help!! Cucumber Beetle? View attachment 16041 ?.. Caterpillar View attachment 16042 Is this a regular bumble..doesn't look like it. View attachment 16043
The top one looks like a Longhorn Garden beetle. There are many of them. Have a look at a few of my beetles pictures here Just give it a click
I have the answer for the bee. It's a carpenter bee..not good for soft wood or a home built with untreated/unpainted wood, but good as a pollinator..googled black spot on bee...lmbo!! Haven't found that beetle yet...i'll just ask the county extension or pest control guy on Friday when they put a barrier around the house. Mannnnnn, we have some seriously weird looking spiders & bugs in this area. I believe most have mutated from that drainage ditch behind us. We've seen albino spiders, spiders crossed between this and that and just plain ugly out there. Don't know how long I can keep the pesticides out of the garden here. Can't have those come into the house. There was a spider so big at the bottom of the pool Sunday when i got home, that i thought it was a leaf and paid no attention to it at that point. But then as i walked around the pool to look at plants, I could tell that that was no leaf and I started screaming to myself....THAT THING WAS HUGE and you could tell that from it laying on the bottom!!!!! i couldn't help but scream as i was bringing it to the surface with the skimmer to smash it just in case it wasn't already dead. My son was on Duo and laughing at me as i screamed and grimaced...then i put it up to the phone on the skimmer and he said oh my God that thing is huge. I kid you not, that spider was the size of a baby tarantula. It looked really scary. Will never tell hubby because he will not get in the pool. His fear of spiders is through the roof. Yep I do the spider killing around the house (city boy). Notice that i didn't mention snakes yet!!!
Number two looks a lot like the Cinnabar moth caterpillars we get here in Scotland. Do you get those moths where you are?
Good News....i got the answers to 2 of them from the extension office...the orange/black bug is a soldier beetle and i was right..the other is a carpenter bee. both are good for the garden. just have to find out where the carpenter bee came from.
