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Author Topic: will he do much damage? plants 'n pots Garden Pro! Member # 1672 posted                       I almost walked by this guy, but something caught my eye. At closer inspection, I could see that he was eating my yucca leaf! Will he do much damage? This plant was put in at the end of last summer and isn't doing the greatest. It gets full day sun - is there anything I should be doing for it? Anything to prevent these guys from chewing too much on the leaves? Thanks! bbbbbbbbb Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Posts: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Logged: 67.84.51.43 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       Lynne, I think that's some kind of dragonfly!!! I'll see if the Buglady's around!!! Weezie bbbbbbbbb Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Posts: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Logged: 24.49.111.30 Buglady Dream Gardener Member # 1854 posted                       it is a dragon fly.. they are meat eaters, adults feed on mosquitoes ..sure he was not landed there with damage from some other insect or slug? bbbbbbbbb The Buglady Suzanne Wainwright-Evans, www.bugladyconsulting.com Educating the world... one bug at a time Posts: 435 | From: PA | Registered: Jan 2004  |  Logged: 152.163.252.166 plants 'n pots Garden Pro! Member # 1672 posted                       Not sure at all, Buglady... I just happened to see him out of the corner of my eye sitting there, and when I took a closer look his mouth was moving all over, so I assumed he was eating. Maybe he was chewing on a mosquito and just resting there? By the way, Buglady... would you happened to have an answer to my other post "who did this" on the pest forum? Any help would be greatly appreciated! bbbbbbbbb Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Posts: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Logged: 67.84.51.43 Buglady Dream Gardener Member # 1854 posted                       somthing like that or he/she was just cleaning their mouth parts. Let em live!!!!! bbbbbbbbb The Buglady Suzanne Wainwright-Evans, www.bugladyconsulting.com Educating the world... one bug at a time Posts: 435 | From: PA | Registered: Jan 2004  |  Logged: 152.163.252.166 plants 'n pots Garden Pro! Member # 1672 posted                       quote: Let em live!!!!! Of course I will!!! I love to watch them fly back and forth across my backyard - it's such a sign of summer! bbbbbbbbb Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Posts: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Logged: 67.84.51.43 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       I love Drangonflies! They are soooooo beautiful! Their wings and the colors! And the way they move.. And their shape. And they're a good bug. Weezie bbbbbbbbb Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Posts: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Logged: 24.49.111.30 Meg Garden Pro! Member # 2702 posted                       Pretty pic. So, I shouldn't run & scream like a little girl when I see them wizzing around?? Meg bbbbbbbbb I reject your reality, and substitue my own! My favorite digital camera photos that I took. My family, garden, and a bunch of misc. photos! Posts: 2517 | From: West Virginia | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Logged: 69.160.110.69 Eugene Carroll Great Gardener Member # 2746 posted                    Perhaps he was eating whatever critter was munching on your plant? Posts: 36 | From: Columbus, OH | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Logged: 156.63.195.2 Nako Greenhouse Pixie Member # 2380 posted                       Actually, becuase its butt is curved, i think it might be a mayfly... i donno. Buglady, what do you think? Either way ^.^ they're both the same thing basicly. Just a mayfly is bigger and has those stripy wings. bbbbbbbbb Nako's Webshots! Posts: 1397 | From: New Hampshire | Registered: May 2004  |  Logged: 24.61.185.48 Buglady Dream Gardener Member # 1854 posted                       It is a dragonfly.. Mayflies at rest hold the wings over their body and are in the order of Ephemeroptera. Dragonflies are in the order Odonata, and feed as adults. Mayfly adults do not feed.. There are a lot of differences between the 2 orders. bbbbbbbbb The Buglady Suzanne Wainwright-Evans, www.bugladyconsulting.com Educating the world... one bug at a time Posts: 435 | From: PA | Registered: Jan 2004  |  Logged: 152.163.252.166

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