What The Heck Are These Bugs?

[Beulah Land]

I see them everywhere and they always swarm the car. They kinda look like a fat tick but they fly. I don’t think it’s a weevil. I mean, at least it’s not a spider that can fly.

 

[41mag]

Hard to tell…. Kinda looks like what we used to call “stink bugs”. But hard to see details …. I ain’t too sure I know what the heck I am talking about anyways

 

[GeauxLSU]

Kudzu bug.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Kudzu Bug | National Invasive Species Information Center

Species Profile: Kudzu Bug. Damages soybeans and other legume crops (Zhang et al. 2012)

www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov

 

[BIKER13]

anybody seen any Joro spiders?

 

[John Moses Browning]

Kudzu Bug | National Invasive Species Information Center

Species Profile: Kudzu Bug. Damages soybeans and other legume crops (Zhang et al. 2012)

www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov

Never heard of them...that's a new one for me.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Never heard of them...that's a new one for me.

Just another gift from China....

 

[WallsGa]

anybody seen any Joro spiders?

Yup. First one yesterday

 

[GeauxLSU]

anybody seen any Joro spiders?

Not nearly as bad this year for some reason and almost all of them small.

 

[Freshly Minted Georgian!]

Joros are out and about but still small. I have a couple of them that have built webs under the roof of my golf cart. They've molted a couple of times already as they've gotten bigger but they are still fairly small. I figure by the fall they'll be nice and plump.