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Can anyone help identify these Beatles??? Never seen them before and they are on my sunflowers. imageimage

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    HI GEN10. They are shield bugs.

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • ClaringtonClarington Posts: 4,949

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    On the subject of bugs:  does anyone know what these are? (Eating my plum tree).

  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698

    Harlequin ladybird larvae. They'll be after bugs, not leaves.

    Last edited: 21 August 2016 18:48:15

  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    Those are garden good guys Clarington. They are Ladybird larvae and will be eating aphids on your tree.

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • ClaringtonClarington Posts: 4,949

    Oh bless them I've so many aphids on that tree they'll explode!

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