What Are You Doing Here

amideutch · March 26, 2008

Was checking out my seedlings and found this strolling down the top of one of my seed-trays. Still have snow on the ground and the temps are in the low 30's to high 20's. Ami

jungseed · March 26, 2008

I gather you don't have Asian beetles around your place. We are infested with the things here. I won't go into the why and how they got here, that may well be considered a political rant. But I have them in my house all winter. I vacuum them up everytime I see one.
Of course yours could just be a nice little lady bug.

amideutch · March 26, 2008

jungseed, a lady bug it is. Thats what is so surprising. Must have overwintered in the house. Ami

PaulF · March 26, 2008

Check closely between the head and the orange colored wings and if you see an M or a W, depending on the way you look at it, you have a drad-blasted, good for nothing Asian Beetle that mimics a lady bug. Just hope you don't have an infestation of mimics.

GIZZARDFARM · March 29, 2008

Boy we have for the past ten years had an infestation of Asian Beetles. A local forestry group whose name i wont call brought them in to "help control the Japaneese beetle and pine borer numbers" hog wash I would rather have Japaneese beetles any day. They get into your home in droves and during late fall i vaccum two or three times a day......

March 26, 2008	#3
amideutch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E Posts: 5,041	jungseed, a lady bug it is. Thats what is so surprising. Must have overwintered in the house. Ami __________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘...Holy Crap .....What a ride!'

March 26, 2008	#4
PaulF Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brownville, Ne Posts: 3,296	Check closely between the head and the orange colored wings and if you see an M or a W, depending on the way you look at it, you have a drad-blasted, good for nothing Asian Beetle that mimics a lady bug. Just hope you don't have an infestation of mimics. __________________ there's two things money can't buy; true love and home grown tomatoes.

March 26, 2008	#2
jungseed Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pardeeville, WI Posts: 318	I gather you don't have Asian beetles around your place. We are infested with the things here. I won't go into the why and how they got here, that may well be considered a political rant. But I have them in my house all winter. I vacuum them up everytime I see one. Of course yours could just be a nice little lady bug.

March 29, 2008	#5
GIZZARDFARM Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: COMFORT TENNESSEE Posts: 300	Boy we have for the past ten years had an infestation of Asian Beetles. A local forestry group whose name i wont call brought them in to "help control the Japaneese beetle and pine borer numbers" hog wash I would rather have Japaneese beetles any day. They get into your home in droves and during late fall i vaccum two or three times a day......