Asian Beetles and Flies
This has been the worse year I can remember for flies and Asian beetles in the Midwest. Every year at this time when they start cutting the soy beans and corn the beetles start looking for a place to winter along with the flies. But this year has been bad. Don’t know if it is because of the drought, or the insecticides you can buy anymore are so cut back they don’t work. Use to spray around the house and the insecticide spray would work really well, in fact I can remember a couple of times it looked like and orange strip around the house account of all the dead beetles.
Anyone else notice that they seem to be worse this year?
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Apply toxins enough times and the survivors pass along the genes for a better beetle. Antibiotics work that way too. That is why we have super infections these days that resist almost everything. We don't see those in the desert southwest, though the ash beetles have made it here in very small numbers.
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Worst year ever for fruit flies, stink bugs, and gnats.
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Here, I am seeing those fake Ladybugs from China in huge numbers around my place. Trying to enjoy a cold beer out on the deck yesterday afternoon, I had to keep a cover on my mug to keep those buggers out!!
Having an agricultural background, I have always been a BIG Ladybug advocate. They can about eat their own weight in aphids a day. But those fake ones are just a nuisance and they bite!
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Only thing worse is the mice!
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Beatles and stinkies are absolutely atrocious right now.
The farmers are hitting the fields for beans, and we are being overwhelmed by bugs when the sun is out.
I used to love fall weather, but not so much now.
This is awful to endure. These Asian beetles need to go away.
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Brookwood: 32594182178715/comments/32594176439067
Here, I am seeing those fake Ladybugs from China in huge numbers around my place. Trying to enjoy a cold beer out on the deck yesterday afternoon, I had to keep a cover on my mug to keep those buggers out!!
Having an agricultural background, I have always been a BIG Ladybug advocate. They can about eat their own weight in aphids a day. But those fake ones are just a nuisance and they bite!
I agree they eat a lot of aphids, which is a good thing. The Asian beetle (fake lady bug) was brought over here for that purpose I believe, but they don’t have no natural enemy here.
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JimmyJack: 32594182178715/comments/32594189748123
Only thing worse is the mice!
I notice there have been more mice this year it seems. I’m using my cat as a barometer as seemed he was catching a lot this year, I’ll give him a larger bonus check this year a Christmas. lol.
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Here in the Blue Ridge Mountains we have bugs like never before. Our house got infested with no-seeums and I had to bomb the house with bug fog. We sit out on the porch to have dinner we get bitten by mosquitos.
Five years ago there were no mosquitos or no-seeums here.
Same thing the stinkbugs and lady bugs. We get hundreds inside the house every year. Ten years ago, no lady bugs or stink bugs.
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I hate to say it but Flys and skeeters have been scarce around us
A few drinks bugs have made it to the house now the farmers have cleared the fields next to us
Ov we all the best year gor pest fee
The Sad part I have not seen a lot of bees of any kind this year and a just a few praying maintises and assorted spiders
we still have two pear Trees and a apple tree that draws them in with counles flowers, even a wild let it grow secton of our back lot about a acre or so my wife lets grow just for the insects and birds and wild life to have a place
we usually get lots of them
Hopethe good insects recover
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I thought the fake ladybugs were brought here to eat gypsy moth larvae. We've got a new one here. Spotted lantern fly. I've only seen one. Other places are polluted with them. Of course they're from China. Originally they thought they'd be much worse but they're finding out other birds and insects feed on them.
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I'm guessing at least 2X the numbers of flies/beetles vs normal.
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