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What is this insect?

15 years ago

I tried to take pictures but they were too small. I keep finding black "ink" looking smudges all around the new buds of one of my roses. They almost look like slugs but only 1/6" or so at the most and are impossible to make out any features, other then they are ink like. I squished on and it looks like a pen leaked on my hand. The buds that they are on are turning brown.

Are these midge? Or something else?

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sammy zone 7 Tulsa
15 years ago
I would blame thrips since I am having so much trouble with them. When you pull back the petals, can you see thread like very small red things moving around?

In Oklahoma our weather is so awful that I am just picking off the blooms and buds that look like they will open up dirty. We won't have a break in the weather for at least a week, and it is having a bad effect on my garden.

If you are not dealing with thrips, I don't know what else it could be.

Sammy
forensicmom
Original Author
15 years ago
It doesn't look like the other thrips I have on two of my other roses so I don't know what it is.
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michaelg
15 years ago
There are black aphid species. Look at them through a magnifier and then check some web pictures.

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