Please help me identify this bug! Creepy!? REPOSTED?

Question

This is a pic of a tiny bug that is eating my pumpkin & squash vines. I have sprayed and sevin dusted but they just come back. Is this just a vine borer? I have searched pic's of them but I have not come across any that look like the bug I caught. Also, there are no larvae of any kind in the vine, just these little things. They run very fast with their "hind ends" pointing up. Please someone help me identify it!

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Answer 1

Good photos.

Stink bugs run with the tail up. These photos could be an instar of a stink bug.

Whatever the bug, sprays usuually kill the adults. Then the eggs hatch, and develop into adults that lay eggs that hatch again.

In order to eradicate an insect, you must kill all the bugs before they lay more eggs. You must break the egg-adult cycle.

In very warm weather, insects can complete a cycle in as little as 3 days for small things like aphids.Larger bugs with more developmental stages need more time.

In order to conquer these insects, you will need to spray the adults for at least 4 cycles and preferably 5, before you can be sure they are finished.

I'd spray every 4 days for 5 cycles and see if that does it or just keep watching for the emergence from the eggs and spray then.

Don't let them lay eggs !

Answer 2

That's a wasp larvae.  The adult wasp lays the egg on the plant and the larvae will feed it's way through the stem until it becomes an adult wasp.  The infected plants are already toasted unless you are prepared to really nurse them.  The only way to solve the problem is with prevention -- next year you should cover the young plants with cheese cloth or build small screened enclosures around them to prevent adults from laying eggs on the plants.  The only spray you should use is to make a 'tea' out of old coffee grinds and tobacco - this is a pretty effective deterrent to many pests and does not harm the environment or you like a pesticide would.

Answer 3

thats pretty creapy and i dont know what it is, however, i might know how to get rid of it. sprinkle borax on the vine, if that doesnt work try lemon juice

Answer 4

It is an earwig. They are commonly found in gardens. They reach different sizes in different parts of the country. Earwigs also do not always have those pinchers on thier rearends.

Answer 5

Try checking here: http://www.whatsthatbug.com/index.html

Scroll down a bit and there's a long column on the left side with all sorts of pics and descriptions of creepy crawlies.

Answer 6

I thought it looked like a rove beetle, If it isn't doing any noticeable damage, then don't bother it, Your Eco system is delicate and it will balance itself out in time, so what ever you take away, something will take it's place good or bad, the bust bug killer I saw was a finger/thumb death pinch, tend to the garden every day or so and pinch the bugs you see. plant marigolds and citronella plants around the garden and yard to keep pests away.