Bug of the Week: Leaf-footed Bug
Posted on January 27, 2009 Comments (2)
Photo of leaf-footed bug by RobertaThe Growing With Science Blog by Roberta, an entomologist, is full of interesting posts on bugs and more. For example – Bug of the Week: Leaf-footed Bug
Leaf-footed bugs have sucking mouthparts and sometimes feed of fruit such as cactus fruit, oranges or peaches. Although we do have citrus, I think this one is a visitor from our neighbors’ yard. Our neighbors have a pomegranate bush. Pomegranates are one of the leaf-footed bugs’ favorite foods.
Like many of their relatives, these true bugs can give off an odor when handled.
🙂 I was adding in some related links and the first one, I was adding, Backyard Wildlife: Great Spreadwing Damselfly, Roberta had commented on to let me know it was a Great Spreadwing Damselfly. It is a small web.
Related: 2 Mysterious Species in the UK – Cool Looking Florescent Green Beetle: Six-spotted Tiger Beetle – Big Spider
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January 28th, 2009 @ 4:11 pm
Glad you stopped by. I had almost forgotten about that damselfly.:-)
September 23rd, 2009 @ 8:31 pm
I have a control for the “leaf-footed bug” we have a small orchid and were plagued with this insecticide resistant insect. We tried seven, malathion, various pepper based safer formulas, nothing worked. We even tried vacuuming them off the Pomegranates, which was very ridiculous indeed. Finally we sewed rectangular bags out of fiberglass screen, about the size of lunch sacs. We covered the young fruit and tied the bags on the stems. floating the fruit in the center of the stiff screen sac. this effectively stopped them and was an organic solution. It also allowed the pomegranate to ripen well. The bags are reusable season after season. If you want to order some from me email.