What's eating my Bok Choy

[beavis]

These guys are all over the plants and with their butts stuck together, I guess they are making more!

Anything I can do to get rid of them? And what are they?

 

[beavis]

 

[beavis]

They look a lot like Harlequin bugs.........

 

[beavis]

Looks like its a Bagrada bug and quite a SERIOUS pest in So Cal


http://rollinghillsherbs.com/got-these-bugs/

 

[hoodat]

I have a different version of that bug. The hot dry weather caused a population explosion of them. There are literally waves of them roaming up and down my garden.Since my Fall garden is shot anyway by the heat I'm going to leave them be and see if a predator of some kind shows up. The yellow jackets ignore them.

 

[beavis]

I have a different version of that bug. The hot dry weather caused a population explosion of them. There are literally waves of them roaming up and down my garden.Since my Fall garden is shot anyway by the heat I'm going to leave them be and see if a predator of some kind shows up. The yellow jackets ignore them.

I yanked all the bok choy and squished it between my hands, then manually squished all of the escapees (hopefully).

Watch out for black and white striped eggs in clusters of twelve.

 

[hoodat]

The eggs is where I'm hoping the prdators will go to work. I have lots of the tiny wasps that attack caterpillar eggs and I'm hoping they'll do the job on these also. According to what I find on the web they lay eggs both on the ground and the leaves.

 

[beavis]

OK, they are not native to the US, so not sure itf their are any natural predators o take care of it.