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Critters

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

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Bagworm

 

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Bag Worm Adult

 

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Black Blister Beetle

 

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Cabbage Lopper

 

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Cottonwood Borer

 

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Cut Worm

 

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Crane Fly

 

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Cicada

 

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Cucumber Beetle (striped and spotted)

 

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Earwig

 

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Grasshopper

 

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Harlequin Bug

 

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Horn Worm

 

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Wire Worm

 

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June Beetle

 

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Leaf Roller damage to Canna 

Leaf roller

 

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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.

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Aphins

 

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Cinch Bug

 

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Elmleaf Beetle

 

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Lace Bug

 

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Leaf Hopper and damage

 

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Adult leafminer, larva of leafminer and its damage

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leafminer

 

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Mealy Bug

 

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spidermitesrose.preview_thumb2 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

 

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Very common on Euonymus

Scale

 

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Spittle Bug

 

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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.

 

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Argiope Spider

 

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Ants

 

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Assassin Bug

 

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Big Eyed Bug

 

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Braconoid or Parasitic wasp

 

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Cicada Killer

 

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Firefly

 

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Giant Wheel Bug

 

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Ichneumon Wasp

 

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Seven Spot Lady Beetle and larva

 

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Twice stabbed Lady Beetle and Larva

 

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Asian or Harmonia lady beetle and pupa

 

Lady Beetle

 

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Mud Dauber

 

 

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Pirate Bug

 

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Praying Mantis

 

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Rough Stink Bug

 

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Spined soldier bug

 

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Trichogramma  Wasp

 

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Lace Wing

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