Bug? Any idea on what this is?
I live in Western Colorado. Have not seen these guys until I purchased a begonia from Sams club. They cluster together. They can fly. I’m not sure if they are doing damage, but they are pesky. I would say about 3/16-1/4 inch. Thank you
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If the bugs are a brown mottled type. If you have small bites out of plant leaves. If you can find creamy rolled up grubs in the soil of plants? You have Vine Weevil! It is the grubs that do the damage by eating the plant roots. You can only kill them chemically by using Nematodes from Garden store added to water, or Kill the adult beetle and squash the grubs, or throw away the plant. Hope that helps.
Here's an article that might help you - https://wci.extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/native-insects/native-insects-coleoptera-beetles/
Perhaps it is a weevil?
Hello. This link below might be helpful. Often as extension agents we use magnifying glasses to see the unique structures of bugs - if we cannot identify then we send them off to the university for identification. Your local extension agent might have more local pest information and then might be advisable if you cannot I do the ID with this resource Link.
https://webdoc.agsci.colostate.edu/ipm/Colorado%20Pest%20ID%20Handbook%208-18-15.pdf
Again for the best local professional advice
I would highly suggest contacting your cooperative extension. These offices are manned by volunteer master gardeners on site there waiting to answer the communities questions that know your local situation quite well.
Master gardeners are required to volunteer back designated hours ( plus continuing education) each year to maintain MG certification -this community outreach and education is their goal.
If your office is closed....there Might be alternative online venues like Ask an Expert as well as emailing your local master gardeners extension office for their
guidance.... in a non contact manner.
Hi there, that looks a bit like a young soldier beetle like we have here in Minnesota. As far as I know they don't do harm to plants but I would check your plants first. That would be the telling sign of the type of bug you may have.
Hi Diane, I hope this helps you out,
https://entomology.ces.ncsu.edu/biological-control-information-center/beneficial-predators/insidious-flower-bug/
looks like either a large beetle or palmetto blug which is a cock roach
It could be a type of dauber. Hard to tell from the photo but that was my first thought.
it looks like large beetle