Bug?

[Worth1]

About the time I think I know every bug in tbe area something new shows up.
This bug has never been here before and I cant find it anywhere on line.
What on earth is it tbe place is crawling with them.
Plus I have some other black spot fungus or something growing.
This rain has really been trouble for me.
Worth
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[b54red]

I have seen them before also. I think maybe they are something that attacks cucumbers and squash but I sure don't know. Looks very similar in shape and body to some of the cucumber beetles that regularly show up on my cucumbers and beans. I'll keep following the thread because surely there is someone on this site that will know what it is; but then there are a lot of bugs in the South.

Bill

[Cole_Robbie]

I think it's a Bean Leaf Beetle.

http://www.garden-planting-tips.com/beetle-pest.html
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/...-leaf-beetles/

[Dark Rumor]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Plus I have some other black spot fungus or something growing.
This rain has really been trouble for me.
Worth

I have the same rain and sounds like the same fungus. How are you treating the fungus?

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Dark Rumor

I have the same rain and sounds like the same fungus. How are you treating the fungus?

Nothing yet.
I had to pull all of the potatoes because of it.
I have never in my life ever seen anything like it here.

Worth

[Cole_Robbie]

I'd spray peroxide. Dilute the 3% drugstore stuff 50/50 with water. Bleach would work too, but I have not used it enough yet to know the right percentage.

[Worth1]

I cant remember what the bleach solution is either.
Maybe Bill will come back and tell us.
It seems as I remember 2 teaspoons per gallon or something.
I have never had to spray anything before.

Worth

[Cole_Robbie]

I had black sooty mold last year from whiteflies, and the peroxide knocked it out overnight.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

I had black sooty mold last year from whiteflies, and the peroxide knocked it out overnight.

This starts out as pin head sized black spots and you can see through them almost and then it starts to spread and make holes in the leaves.
Nothing on line as far as pictuer look like it.
It has to be some kind of mold due to the cold damp weather and rain.

Worth

[Worth1]

Almost all of the places in the world where disease and pestilence occur are in hot wet climates.
I have no doubt Texas would become a living hell if it rained all the time.
Some of these spores could have been sitting around for many years just waiting for the right time.
Worth

[Dark Rumor]

Does the small black specs start out looking like this on the underside of the leaf and then get worse. This started over a week ago.

[Scooty]

Worth1, you should submit to A&M for identification. http://texashighplainsinsects.net/

[kurt]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Almost all of the places in the world where disease and pestilence occur are in hot wet climates.
I have no doubt Texas would become a living hell if it rained all the time.
Some of these spores could have been sitting around for many years just waiting for the right time.
Worth

Reporting from zone 10B.Now you have a insight to what us Floridians(especially us deep south)gardeners must contend with.Along with the weather at least the aquifers will get replenished,beneficial insects,fungi, lizard eggs will hatch,birds will bathe,etc.(you get the picture).Everybody eats when it rains.

[My Foot Smells]

I don't know, but put your picture (nice pic) on facebook. I have a niece who is a biologist in chatanooga who is pretty good entomologist. I always get bugs and birds this time of year that are generally not native. Figure a beetle of some sort, which is probably a bad thing.

Yes, if it rained in Tex all the time, it would be a jungle. don't envy soflo, better be careful what you plant down there - could you imagine cutzoo (sp?) spreading in soflo?

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by My Foot Smells

I don't know, but put your picture (nice pic) on facebook. I have a niece who is a biologist in chatanooga who is pretty good entomologist. I always get bugs and birds this time of year that are generally not native. Figure a beetle of some sort, which is probably a bad thing.

Yes, if it rained in Tex all the time, it would be a jungle. don't envy soflo, better be careful what you plant down there - could you imagine cutzoo (sp?) spreading in soflo?

Not a member of facebook.

Worth