Marching off to War
These small bugs appeared on a lawn chair cushion that’s on a deck out in my woods. Marching busily along in this little bunch. Spooky. I immediately got a magnifying glass to count the legs and see if they were baby spiders; fortunately, I found six legs (each) and two antennae.
Now, my friend, Dr. Larry Emerson of Dewberry Farm, is actually a Bug Doctor. So I sent him a nice blow up image of these little fellars for identification. Of some concern to me was that they looked remarkably like Deer Ticks, which carry Lyme Disease. Yikes!
If I only had the courage, I’d print the whole of Larry’s analysis of these bugs here. Totally hysterical! Completely irreverant!
These babies are Wheel Bugs! They have three distinct phases or “costumes”, growing into a craigy looking woodsie bug that matches tree bark. Read about ‘em in Wikipedia!
Wheel bug nymphs on the move