RidgebackRanch
Attractive To Bees
Found these litle creeps eating my tomatoes yesterday. I tried to identify but they were not on any list of common pests to tomatoes.
Anybody have any idea what these are?
Tomato eating bugs
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Found these litle creeps eating my tomatoes yesterday. I tried to identify but they were not on any list of common pests to tomatoes.
Anybody have any idea what these are?
hoodat
Garden Addicted
Those ridges on it's back sort of throw me but other than that it seems to belong to the large June bug family. Many of that family eat fruit which they seem to prefer either dead ripe or even a bit over the hill. They seldom eat green fruit.
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RidgebackRanch
Attractive To Bees
I also thought they looked like June bugs. They certainly were not as crunchy as a June bug when I squished them. Also we do get June bugs here, but this year they were very few. I will be watching for these little buggers diligently, as we really can't spare perfectly good tomatoes just to feed some bugs. Thanks Hoodat!
Carol Dee
Garden Master
Creepy bug for sure. 
hoodat
Garden Addicted
We have that huge shiny green fig eating beetle here. They love to lay eggs in my compost pile and the grubs are enormous. Makes me wish I had some chickens to feed them to.
