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Sep 5, 2010, red with black spikes caterpillar
This guy/gal is eating my passion fruit vine! do I relocate him? or does he need to 'go'
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Sep 4, 2010, Black Insects Page 2
Insect identification pages including black insects that readers have uploaded for identification
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Sep 4, 2010, black and orange beetle (Green stink bug nymph)
This was taken in upstate NY. It looks like some sort of tortoise beetle. Is it? I can't seem to find this image anywhere. Maybe you can help me identify
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Sep 4, 2010, Black Caterpillar with Yellow/Orange/Red Spots
The babies only have small yellow spots in contrast to their black body. As they grow bigger, the spots start to change to orange, then red, while white
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Sep 3, 2010, bumble bee
please help me name this bee .. thx so much for your knowledge of insects i am in debted for this .. ms binda hunt sarnia ont c
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Sep 2, 2010, Brown fly
This is another image of the brown fly i posted a couple of weeks back. Thank you MONI for the help you have given me
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Sep 1, 2010, Brown Insects Page 2
Brown insects submitted to insect identification pages on gardening website of Doug Green
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Aug 31, 2010, Green Insect Identification
A page with green insect identification pictures (prmiarily green) for you to identify your insects and add your insect pictures
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Aug 31, 2010, Caterpillar identification Page 3
pictures of caterpillars identified for readers of gardening author Doug Green
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Aug 30, 2010, green leaf like insect (Keeled treehopper)
1.5 mm in length, I think I have the insect photographed in two stages of its life cycle. The first stage being orange black and spickey; the second mostly
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Aug 30, 2010, brownish dragonfly (Twelve-spotted Skimmer, female)
Dragonfly was in my frog pond. I hope someone will help identify it for me. I appreciate your time
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Aug 30, 2010, large green caterpillar (Hickory horned devil caterpillar)
he has spikes all over shell and appears to be horns or antnenas on head. he is green and atleast 7inches long he has a pincher for a tail and i have
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Aug 29, 2010, Caterpillar Identification page 2
Page two of caterpillar identification where you can uplaod and get id on your caterpillar
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Aug 29, 2010, small brown spikey insect (Sinea spp. Assassin bug nymph)
Small, approximately 1cm long. Covered with spikes. Large front legs. I found it on my clothes at the end of a walk. I've never seen anything like
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Aug 29, 2010, Big green worm ( Cecropia moth caterpillar)
He measures about 5 inches long when fully extended. He is an apple green color with orange, yellow, and blue extrusions. Those extrusions have black spikes.
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Aug 29, 2010, Brown Fuzzy Caterpillar (Tiger Moth Caterpillar)
We found this fuzzy guy in the grass near our deck. It spent the day in a screened bug cage, and was released later that day. My son wanted to keep it,
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Aug 27, 2010, Red Insect Identification
Red insect identification pictures and upload your own insect pictures to have them identified
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Aug 25, 2010, gardening newsletter
A free gardening newsletter written by award winning garden author Doug Green.
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Aug 24, 2010, Gray Insect Identification
Gray insect identication page where you can upload your own gray insects to learn what they are
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Aug 24, 2010, Moths and Butterflies Page 2
Page 2 of identified moths and butterflies
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Aug 24, 2010, Strang fly looking grey bug (Robber fly, female)
I found this on my porch. It looks like a fly because of the eys and the hairy legs, but the body is too long and pointy for a fly. It is grey with a needle
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Aug 24, 2010, Red white and blue beetle (Giant Mesquite bug nymph)
Beautifully photographed red white and blue stink bug with spatulate antennae obsrved on door of structure near Ruidosa TX 6-15-2005. Estimated length
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Aug 24, 2010, patterned moth butterfly (Vine sphinx moth)
Found this on my trash can.. just beautiful; Please can someone tell me what this is
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Aug 24, 2010, Grey bug (Assassin bug - Masked Hunter)
Hi, I have three pictures of the same insect. The back looks more concaved than in pictures. It looks very close to the Masked Hunter Bug. I have found
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Aug 24, 2010, Large Green Flying insect (Annual Cicada)
I found this big guy dead on my front porch. He (or she) is about 1-1/2 to 2 inches long with green and dark green colors. Also some black symmetrical
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Aug 23, 2010, Large moth with brown camo design (Great Tiger Moth)
The picture below will show this beauty much better than any description. I found him/her sitting on the windowsill in the spare bedroom here at my grandmother's
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Aug 23, 2010, white, yellow and blue striped caterpillar (Monarch butterfly caterpillar)
my son found this caterpillar that is white, yellow and blue striped caterpillar
Aug 16, 2010, spider with white head
This rushed out of a clothespin while I was hanging laundry. Spider with a white head and a small second body segment, mostly brown in color. Likes lurking
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Aug 16, 2010, spider with red around head
Found on my bedroom wall. Body around 1cm long, brown and black patterned body with chevrons on the back end. Reddish circle around the equator of the
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Aug 16, 2010, brown fly
Is this a fruit fly? I found it on a blade of grass in a field in upstate NY. I can't seem to find a picture of it anywhere and would like to know the
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