Critters – Gardening & Landscaping By Red Dirt Gardening

Good Bug Bad Bug

Once completed, this Oklahoma garden resource will contain not only a photo of the common Oklahoma garden critters but also an image of their damage. This is a work in progress.

Chewing Insects

Bagworm

Bag Worm Adult

Black Blister Beetle

Cabbage Lopper

Cottonwood Borer

Cut Worm

Crane Fly

Cicada

Cucumber Beetle (striped and spotted)

Earwig

Grasshopper

Harlequin Bug

Horn Worm

Wire Worm

(top Green June beetle, bottom June Beetle and June Beetle larva better know as a Grub worm)

June Beetle

Leaf Roller damage to Canna

Leaf roller

Slug

Web Worm

Sucking Insects

These guys pierce and suck the fluids out of plants. If you see stippling you have a sucking bug in you garden.

Aphins

Cinch Bug

Elmleaf Beetle

Lace Bug

Leaf Hopper and damage

Adult leafminer, larva of leafminer and its damage

Leafminer

Mealy Bug

Easy way to see if you have red spider mites it to hold a white piece of paper unde4r a section of the plant. Shake the leaf/stem vigorously. If you have little tiny red dots on the paper then you have red spider mites.

Red Spider Mites

Very common on Euonymus

Scale

Spittle Bug

adult whiteflies and a whitefly egg mass

Whitefly

Beneficial Insects

When ever I see these guys in my Oklahoma garden I know it is in good health and nature is taking care of things for me. To encourage the presence of these spiders, ants, wasps and bugs, do not use chemicals. These creepy crawlers do a great job of keeping everything in balance.