[Wort-H.O.G.]

ahh the return of the stink bug....don't know where they come from but right on cue-they're back again!

nasty when you squash them   

[mainebrewer]

Same here in Maine.
We also get hundreds of what look like ladybugs but, I'm told, are actually Japanese Bean Beetles.
Both of them hang around all fall and winter and are gone in the spring.

[erockrph]

Same here in Maine.
We also get hundreds of what look like ladybugs but, I'm told, are actually Japanese Bean Beetles.
Both of them hang around all fall and winter and are gone in the spring.

I get those starting in July - Mexican Bean Beetles, aka Spotted Cucumber Beetle. They do a number on my cukes, beans and squash, and they spread disease like wildfire along with it. the first time I saw one in the garden I thought "Oh cool, a brown ladybug!". And within days all my cukes had leaves that looked like cobwebs. followed by rotten leaves and powdery mildew. I hate them bastards.