Can anyone ID this bug and does anybody know if it is a friend or foe to lemon & orange blossoms / fruit?
Thanks!
Kamila
Bug ID required please?
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Re: Bug ID required please?
It's a White-spotted Rose Beetle (Oxythyrea funesta)
http://thingsbiological.wordpress.com/2 ... a-funesta/
Can be a pest in certain plants but it's probably doing a good job pollinating your citrus.
Sid
http://thingsbiological.wordpress.com/2 ... a-funesta/
Can be a pest in certain plants but it's probably doing a good job pollinating your citrus.
Sid
Re: Bug ID required please?
Thank you very much for your reply. I will leave them on the blossoms.
Kamila
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Re: Bug ID required please?
I am far from an expert, but, I think this insect eats the middle of the blossom of orange, lemon, quince, daisies, yellow roses and it seems any flower with a yellow middle. ( Therefore killing the flower and future fruit )
I take them off by hand and squash them. I have found no insecticide to kill them despite trying many.
Jeff
I take them off by hand and squash them. I have found no insecticide to kill them despite trying many.
Jeff
Re: Bug ID required please?
Thank you baroness, I have been knocking them of the flowers but left them lately. When the bug is on the flower it looks like it is buried inside the flower so you are right, it has to be eating the inside of the flower. So back to knocking them off and squashing them.
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