Ridgerunner
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Yeah, I learned some lessons this year too.
Hi @journey11, None of your images from your posts are showing up. Did you save your images as .jpg images or something else? Also have you named your photos in lower case? I know this makes a difference when I put images on my website.
@Hal , Sorry it took me so long to post these. They were taken a few days ago, at night. Backs of the leaves... I expected I would find mites or aphids. Found 4 different bugs, but only one of each, lol. That first one looks like a tiny beetle larva to me, one caterpillar of course, and I'm unsure of the last 2.
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This plant did go on to bear quite a few beans, despite how terrible it looked. (#49 outcross, only 1 plant)
If those few little holes are the worst of your insect damage you have gotten by very well. You should see what Japnese beetles do to some of my bean leaves here. They totally skelatonize some of the leaves on some of the plants, and that's not as bad as what they used to do when they first showed up here 5 years ago.
Anyway all the photos are showing up nicely now.
I am seeing a lot of brown marmorated stink bugs in the bean patch though, especially at night. They suck the juices out of things. Can't tell that they've done much to the beans, but they sure can make a tomato skin look unpalatable.