Sorry that should have been titled Bug identification
not a reply to another post.

Ben

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Ben - if you've done enough looking around on the web to think that
these are midges (and it sounds like a good guess to me, though I
haven't seen yours), you might have also noticed that they are NOT
harmful to plants. So relax, eh?

No need to go spraying with anything, unless they'e bothering you with
their biting, in which case use a regular insect repellant with DEET,
on yourself. Some midges are biters of mammals as adults (no-see-ums),
but the larvae of all apparently eat algae and aquatic plants. I've
only seen them near water myself. Likely they were in/on your juniper
because with the constant moisture this spring, you've got some algae
growing on the trunk. Heaven knows everything in my collection is
growing something green and fuzzy - even the stones!

Here's a good site for midge info:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2129.html

Regards,
Anita
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Right what i was worried about was if they were midges
they may be some kind of juniper tip midge which can
cause needle die back as they bore into the needles.
I can't get up close enough to them to see them
though. Maybe i can catch one tomorrow when i water
. I have a water basin which i noticed larve in i
was going to get a goldfish to put in it but i guess i
was a day to late.

Ben

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So, what's the differnce between a midge and a gnat?

(They call them "See me nots" in the Bahamas)

Regards,

Bart

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Subject: [IBC] Bug identification


Ben - if you've done enough looking around on the web to think that
these are midges (and it sounds like a good guess to me, though I
haven't seen yours), you might have also noticed that they are NOT
harmful to plants. So relax, eh?

No need to go spraying with anything, unless they'e bothering you with
their biting, in which case use a regular insect repellant with DEET,
on yourself. Some midges are biters of mammals as adults (no-see-ums),
but the larvae of all apparently eat algae and aquatic plants. I've
only seen them near water myself. Likely they were in/on your juniper
because with the constant moisture this spring, you've got some algae
growing on the trunk. Heaven knows everything in my collection is
growing something green and fuzzy - even the stones!

Here's a good site for midge info:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2129.html

Regards,
Anita
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Northern Harford County, Maryland, USDA zone 6
"I like winter trees against the sky, I said.
What does that say about you, she said, that you like
undressed trees. A voyeur."
-from a poem by Kay Cheever


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So, what's the differnce between a midge and a gnat? BRBR

From Merriam-Webster online:
Main Entry: midge
Pronunciation: 'mij
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English migge, from Old English mycg; akin to Old High German
mucka midge, Greek myia fly, Latin musca
Date: before 12th century
: a tiny dipteran fly (as a chironomid)

Main Entry: gnat
Pronunciation: 'nat
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gnætt; akin to Old English gnagan
to gnaw
Date: before 12th century
: any of various small usually biting dipteran flies

If you have little creatures resembling midges hovering around your plants,
they may be fungus gnats, which is something entirely different. With all the
rain we have had, they could multiply more than usual.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

So, what's the differnce between a midge and a gnat?

(They call them "See me nots" in the Bahamas)


If they bite, they're midges. If they don't bite they're gnat.
;-)

jim

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