Thursday, June 21, 2012

Bugs on Blooms and Beetles on Beans

Japenese beetle on green beans.
Do you know what these are? Some kind of aphid, I assume, with very wooly 'brows'. That's my finger  behind the base of a mandevilla blossom.

Update July 3: I asked Cindy at Bug Safari if she could identify these little guys. Thanks you Cindy!   Here's her reply:

Your little mystery bugs are planthoppers, which are sort of "cousins" to aphids. Many of the planthopper nymphs sport fuzzy "tails". I looked on BugGuide, and yours seem to be a good match for the genus Acanalonia.
Pests on Petals. Small shasta daisy.
This little guy: less than half an inch long.
One Wish
'Wall Flowers' (lantana in foreground)

2 comments:

Cindy said...

Nice collection of bugs and stuff :)

Your little mystery bugs are planthoppers, which are sort of "cousins" to aphids. Many of the planthopper nymphs sport fuzzy "tails". I looked on BugGuide, and yours seem to be a good match for the genus Acanalonia.

Vada said...

Thank you, Cindy!
Tails, huh? I really wasn't sure which end was which, on these little guys. ;^)