Q: What do you recommend for controlling that ugly, leaf-footed bug that attacks my pomegranates? I want to be prepared. A: They aren’t difficult to kill with a variety of traditional pesticides ...

A look at assassin bugs, leaf footed bugs, ... It is critical to find and destroy squash bug eggs and nymphs early before they kill cucurbits. Later the adult bugs are tougher to eradicate.

Stink bugs and leaf footed bugs overwinter as adults in weedy areas like ditch banks, leaf debris or organic mulch. They emerge in spring to feed on weedy plants and mate. Eggs hatch five to seven ...

Leaf-footed bug suspected in demise of pomegranate fruit. ... The best time to remove them is when they are in the egg stage, laid in a strand — end to end on the underside of leaves.

Eggs are shiny, bronze and oval and are laid in clusters or sometimes in a row along a leaf midrib. The green stink bug, southern green stink bug, brown stink bug and the leaf-footed bug are the ...

This is a leaf-footed bug (Leptoglossus zonatus). They tend to show up on tomato plants and pomegranate trees. The adults are dark brown, about an inch long, with a narrow body and a light zig-zag ...

It's hard to ignore leaf-footed bugs. They're big, with long legs and antennae and a tubular, piercing "beak." When viewed from above, they seem to have a "X" marked across their backs.

This is a leaf-footed bug (Leptoglossus zonatus). They tend to show up on tomato plants and pomegranate trees. The adults are dark brown, about an inch long, with a narrow body and a light zig-zag ...

This is a leaf-footed bug (Leptoglossus zonatus). They tend to show up on tomato plants and pomegranate trees. The adults are dark brown, about an inch long, with a narrow body and a light zig-zag ...

Q: We have 30-year-old Rhaphiolepis indica planted in a slightly raised planter. One side was particularly hit hard by the freeze a few years ago (17 degrees in Tucson in February), or so we ...

If you peel a satsuma and find that some of the sections are dark and dryish, blame the western leaf-footed bug, a dark brown insect less than an inch long. (Jay Hare/Dothan Eagle via AP, File ...

This is a leaf-footed bug (Leptoglossus zonatus). They tend to show up on tomato plants and pomegranate trees. The adults are dark brown, about an inch long, with a narrow body and a light zig-zag ...