What kind of bugs do I have?
 

These showed up all of a sudden yesterday. The plants are Pansies in a pot that my wife has to water every day. I presume they hatched on the plant. What the heck are they?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1307536951.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1307537232.jpg

Cooties.
Definitely cooties.

red aphids

I don't think so. I think those are baby assassin bugs.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/...05818127be.jpg

I have them in my yard all of the time.

Run Glen......run.

Here's another possibility.

p&dc_12

Those are zombie scout bugs.
Hope you have plenty of ammo saved up.

I was just guessing.

If they are assassin bugs, then they eat other bugs. If they are the bugs in the other link, then they eat tomatos.

Here's an older assassin bug. Have you seen these?

http://www.cirrusimage.com/Bugs/assassin_bug_mccann.jpg

and here's what I'd call the adolescent
http://i.pbase.com/u18/ronnie_14187/...8404017448.jpg

Here's a picture that I took of one in my yard eating a spider
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1307539378.jpg

And here's a shot that I took in my yard of a spider eating an assassin bug
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1307539435.jpg

We don't have any tomato plants.

Should I nuke em or ignore them?

We do have some rose bushes. I don't want them to hurt the roses.

I think you're probably good. I wouldn't worry about them, but I'd probably watch them. Sometimes it's hard to tell one bug from another when they are that young. As they get older, it'll be easier to tell for sure.

No idea about that bug, but we have been going through our yearly invasion of centipedes lately. It's been hot and dry, so I guess they are making their way in for water or a cool place to stay...

My mother had millipedes before she moved. Ugly and smelly when several die, but otherwise harmless. Centipedes are, I believe, poisonous. That sucks. I don't want scorpions, black widows or brown recluse either.

That is a big bug!

Is that something from your yard?

well, they are pretty creepy.

No, from the Island of Dominica, when we filmed Pirates 2.

wait... what? Nobody told me there would be centipedes around here!

Have you tasted one yet? That should give you some more information.

large and plentiful but not a problem

http://www.eduwebs.org/bugs/images/milliped.jpg

not good.
http://www.cutehomepets.com/wp-conte...-centipede.jpg

Apparently, in the wild, these are known to hang from the ceilings of caves and snatch bats out of the air as they fly by.
http://www.cutehomepets.com/wp-conte...-centipede.jpg

I am getting hungry...the Belagio Buffet ought to have some of those on the dinner menu...

Yikes... that last shot gives me the willies!

So I can hope they are the assassin bugs not the stinkbugs.

I am real glad they are not monster bat eating centipedes.

Hopefully our local population of skinks will take care of them.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1307565068.jpg

Maybe I should be happy I don't have this critter!

No kidding - I had a whole body shake looking at that thing on someone's arm - blech.

no ****** way would i put that on my arm

When we lived in the Bahamas, we had centipeds; Vietnamese centipedes..scary
mu&%$#%$^&ers with a nasty bite. Found about a 10 inch one in my daughters room one night..had to peel my wife off the ceiling.