check this bug out

[caregiverken]

We were taking old yellow leaves off the volunteer and my wife spotted it :confused:

 

[WalterWhiteFire]

Holy shit that's weird looking!

 

[Animal Chin]

Milky white trichomes on a caterpillar...dope

 

[urbanfog]

WTF?

 

[caregiverken]

Milky white trichomes on a caterpillar...dope

Yeah Huh? Maybe he is trying to look like a tiny flower!;)

edit to add;
That tiny thing would be really hard to see in a frosty bud! :eek:

 

[caregiverken]

That plant hasn't been sprayed with spinosad yet

 

[Aligee]

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We were taking old yellow leaves off the volunteer and my wife spotted it :confused:

Wow thats a strange one Ken!

 

[caregiverken]

my wife took this photo with a camera..the others I took with my scope

 

[caregiverken]

Its not this...

this is a photo from the internet of a tomato worm that has wasp eggs on it

But that is cool too!^^ I want some of those wasps in my garden!

 

[Oregon Panda]

Was it alive? Reminds me of a cordyceps fungal infection. It would be so dead if it had mushrooms erupting from its flesh though.

 

[caregiverken]

Its a Predatory Bug!!:woot:

turns into a Predatory beetle ;)

• Cryptolaemus montrouzieri
  https://www.google.com/search?q=mealybug+destroyer It eats Aphids ;)

 

[Oregon Panda]

Feck yeah! I want some now!

 

[caregiverken]

I guess the more aphid they eat the longer their hairs get :p

 

[caregiverken]

adult

 

[Capulator]

That is super tight. That exoskeleton will blend right in when you plants get frosty enough. LOL.

 

[pussOGbrah]

wow thats awesome trippy bug!

 

[cannabeans]

I have never seen anything like that....Thanks for sharing

 

[leafmold]

Crazy. Cool find and thanks for posting that.

 

[urbanfog]

nice! "battle bugs"

 

[caregiverken]

I took these photo this morning:D ....These little guys picked the right plant to be on..
because I stopped spraying spinosad on this one a few days ago.

from the other direction

:woot: