Please help me identify this unknown bug!!!! **Update On Johnny Adam**

[Wildsky]

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you should have at least let them try SCAN it while you were checking out.

 

[Bec]

oh the cashier saw him...squealed and looked away! I tried not to steal him!

 

[helmstead]

It's a leaf leg bug! Prolly rode in on the produce truck. We hate them around here - they are garden PESTS - make quick work of our tomatoes and green beans. Last year, they acted like squash bugs and killed 4 mature crook neck plants in 24 hrs.

At least if you decide to keep it, it will be easy to feed. Fruit & veggie kitchen scraps should keep it happy.

 

[SoccerMomof7]

I have found those twice in my kitty litter! Both from Wal Mart also

 

[Wildsky]

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Its the new line of high protien chicken snacks.

 

[xfilesnumber1fan]

I call them stink bugs!

 

[junebug7334]

...........chicken food!

 

[rjveazey]

You have a true bug from the Hemiptera family. Relatives are the stink bug, the squash bug, and the box elder bug. A few of them will attack other bugs. I have seen his species before but I don't remember his name. I am pretty sure he eats plants. All Hemiptera have tubular mouthparts and insert them in whatever they are eating. If you really want to keep him, you will need to try various fresh leaves, vegetables, etc. Most of them cause damage on many crops.
I am retired now, but I was trained as an Entomologist.
Joyce from NC

 

[Bec]

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It is funny you say that because we were in the kitty litter isle!


Wild Sky- I tried to tell her that but she wasn't havin' it! She told me just to take it, so I did!

I put some cherry tomatoes in there so hopefully he likes them!

 

[Bec]

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So he would enjoy leaves and greens better than the actual fruit? I was just going to keep him until spring and then let him go outside...NOT near my garden...maybe my rotten neighbors garden would be better