What kind of bug horde is this?

[jobycom]

Are they bug Visigoths or just some mendicant order passing through?
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jobycom/3984384519/" title="10/05/2009 by jobycom, on Flickr"><img src="" width="375" height="500" alt="10/05/2009" /></a>

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Those look like squash bug nymphs to me. You might want to check this out.

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/M1208.html

[jobycom]

2. These are orange and wingless. Doesn't look like the pictures.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. What plant did you find them on? That might give you a clue.

[deucemagnet]

3. They kind of look like the milkweed bug nymphs on this site.

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

The nymphs are the wingless ones.

[GoCubsGo]

5. Not sure it's a milkweed bug, but...

It sure does look like an Assassin Bug nymph of some sort: http://bugguide.net/node/view/166/bgpage

[Mugu]

6. I don't believe that they're Milkweed bugs.

I just happen to have photos from my backyard.

Youngsters.




Then they do this.



And turn into this.

[Kali]

8. nice pix (again)

I still have a copy of your weevil on a penny.

oh and that bud looks nice (I'm assuming it isn't really what it looks like :smoke: ;-) )

[Mugu]

9. Thank you so much for the kind words Kali and yes, the bud is exactly what it looks like.

Milkweed.:evilgrin:

[Kali]

7. suck bugs

:rofl:










:hide:










(sorry, most hemiptera - true bugs - "suck")

[styersc]

10. My Guess. The GOP Conservative Caucus!!!!!

But I'm no Enema-ologist.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

11. Back-eyed hitchhike beetles.

Bachsium thumouta.

[jobycom]

12. That would explain the plant.

Jeebus Beetlebusium.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

14. Sillyus Duitum.

:)

[Forkboy]

13. I haven't seen that many creepy things in one spot since the last teabag rally.