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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?
 
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Cooties.
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 I have them in my yard all of the time.
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Run Glen......run.
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Those are zombie scout bugs.
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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?  and here's what I'd call the adolescent  Here's a picture that I took of one in my yard eating a spider  And here's a shot that I took in my yard of a spider eating an assassin bug 
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06-08-2011, 05:23 AM
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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06-08-2011, 07:07 AM
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That is a big bug!
Is that something from your yard?
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well, they are pretty creepy.
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06-08-2011, 09:08 AM
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entertaining the idea
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Have you tasted one yet? That should give you some more information.
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large and plentiful but not a problem
 not good.  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. 
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Carrera
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