Southern Post Journal

Bugs

UCO Unidentified Crawling Object?

September 1, 2009

A strange visitor seen crawling on my Firebush Hamilia patens. Do you know what it is?It is a friend or foe? It is a Black Stink Bug (Proxys punctulatus). Foe? Sort of. They like to feed by sucking out plant juices. While this can cause some discolored stems and unslightly leaves, they typically never invade [...]

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Out of Body Experience For This Cicada

August 26, 2009
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I am still trying to learn how to use my new camera, the Canon Rebel XSI. I am having a lot of fun experimenting with different settings. I went ahead and got the macro lens too, which is really amazing for these close-up shots. Cicadas are out in force this month in my Houston neighborhood [...]

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Yuck! What is That?

August 26, 2009

These caterpillars (Armyworms) are eating my waterlilies alive in the stock tank.  If you know what type of caterpillar this is, please post it in the comments section. Thank you Wizzie Brown for letting us know. As if it wasn’t bad enough that they are eating the lilies, they are leaving even more disgusting droppings [...]

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