Cucumber Beetles

Gardeners beware! These little bugs may seem like cute little ladybugs, but they are actually garden pests.
They eat cucumbers, lettuce, and all the leaves off of vegetable plants and flowers.

photo credit:: internet

To get rid of them, you'd have to buy pest repellent, I don't know which kind though.




~Emma

A Little About Me

   Hello!  I'm Emma.   I love and live in Texas, and am always itching to go outside. My favorite things to do are fishing, riding horses, riding bikes, roller blades and rip-sticks, hanging with friends, reading and writing, and catching crawly critters. Since I see so many insects, fish, and other animals, I thought I'd share them with y'all by making a bug blog! Some people may think, "it's so gross!" to even touch a little bug. Well, not me! I just have to see and touch all the bugs up close! Note: not the poisonous ones!

   There was one bug in particular that inspired my blog.

   I was outside about a week ago when I found it. I put it in a container (didn't know if it was venomous or not), and took it home. I had no idea what it was, so I looked it up. It looked like this:

     Interesting, right? Doing more research, I found out it was this:

   I would have never have guessed it was a ladybug larvae!
 
   The ladybug larvae eats fungus and the adult ladybug eats aphids, little green bugs that usually eat roses and other flowers.  Ladybugs are a member of the beetle family, and the prettiest beetle at that!

   So there you have it; my first of many posts. Thanks for reading and have a good week!
 

      ~Emma~