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

[Bec]

You all are too funny!!!!

It is nice to know that there ARE other people like me out there and I am not a weirdo-bug-freak!

 

[walkswithdog]

Those durn things killed all my squash plants last year. This year I'm letting the chickens at em... Attack Chickens!!!

They suck the life right out of the squash and the stems. They go down like balloons with no air any more. It's kind of sad. One day you have a new crop of squash coming out and the next you have a sad deflated squash shaped balloon. Then they totally suck the life out of the plant and go looking for more squash plants.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Same thing happened to my squash plants last summer.

 

[Bec]

I will make sure I let him go far away from my garden!

 

[wegotchickens]

Same thing happened to mine, despite my 'pet' Black Widows in each garden bed.

 

[Blooming chicks]

I love this site...so glad to know I am not the only one who does this stuff. I can't kill anything. Though I stopped bringing tortises home from the middle of the road since I learned this is terrible for them. Instead, I move them off the road and leave them safely on the side! I really feel like stray and injured animals/reptiles seek me out. They know a sucker when they see one

 

[Bec]

Well I have some bad news on Johnny Adam. He has passed on

I checked on him this morning and he was ok, but this afternoon, he wasn't moving...... RIP Johnny Adam!

At least he was in a nice warm place, not squished or freezing outside. As dumb as i may sound, I wonder what I could have done better for him? Or was it just his time?

 

[cyanne]

Sorry to hear your pet bug died.

If it makes you feel any better, he had a happy life during his last days and you were probably better off not releasing him in the Spring. Trust me, you don't want those guys anywhere near your house if you garden. They breed like crazy, and they fly so wherever you let him go he probably would have flown right to your yard and started ruining your veggies.

I had an all-out war with these on my pepper and tomato plants 2 yrs in a row. They stick their noses into the veggies and inject their saliva in to pre-digest it. It ruins the flavor of the veggies and kills off the plants. Plus, they seem to be fairly resistant to pesticides. Once they found my garden I couldn't seem to get rid of them no matter what I tried.

Now that we've moved, I am hoping they never show up in the new garden...shudder.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Johnny Adam.

 

[ThornyRidge]

Looks like a large stink bug to me.. just killed one in my house the other day..