Small gray & black beetles(?) all over buds

Cwmoore577

Cwmoore577

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These are the best pictures I could take with my phone..
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Is anyone familiar with what these are and if they’re cause for concern?
They’re small, with a gray and black pattern and I’ve found about 10-15 of them so far and they’re on the buds. I’m in week 3 of flowering so I assume too late for a pesticide.

Beetles? Stink bugs?
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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Cwmoore577 said:
I thought that. Today is not a good day. While trying to rid the plant of these I found thrips...
Any suggestions?
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I did find a beneficial type of stink bug. Maybe it's one of those and all it's doing is eating your thrips for you. I have no idea, but maybe it's not all bad.

Rough plant bugs
Brochymena spp. (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

Rough shield bug (Brochymena sp.) (E. Miliczky)
Although many stink bug species are pests, those of the genus Brochymena are predaceous as both nymphs and adults. Predaceous stink bugs are most often found on forest trees and shrubs but also occur on fruit trees, where they prey on caterpillars, beetles, pear psylla, aphids and other insects. They puncture the prey with their stylets (mouthparts) and suck out the juices. Eggs are pearly white, oval and about 1/25 inch (1 mm) long and are laid on twigs or leaves in small groups. Both the nymph and adult are a steely gray with white specks. The coloring distinguishes the predaceous species from the consperse stink bug, an orchard pest, which has black specks. The adult is about 1/2 inch (12 to 15 mm) long. Brochymena has one generation each year and overwinters as an adult.
 
Cwmoore577

Cwmoore577

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CanadianJim said:
How about these?View attachment 4394146
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PadawanWarrior said:
I did find a beneficial type of stink bug. Maybe it's one of those and all it's doing is eating your thrips for you. I have no idea, but maybe it's not all bad.

Rough plant bugs
Brochymena spp. (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

Rough shield bug (Brochymena sp.) (E. Miliczky)
Although many stink bug species are pests, those of the genus Brochymena are predaceous as both nymphs and adults. Predaceous stink bugs are most often found on forest trees and shrubs but also occur on fruit trees, where they prey on caterpillars, beetles, pear psylla, aphids and other insects. They puncture the prey with their stylets (mouthparts) and suck out the juices. Eggs are pearly white, oval and about 1/25 inch (1 mm) long and are laid on twigs or leaves in small groups. Both the nymph and adult are a steely gray with white specks. The coloring distinguishes the predaceous species from the consperse stink bug, an orchard pest, which has black specks. The adult is about 1/2 inch (12 to 15 mm) long. Brochymena has one generation each year and overwinters as an adult.
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It could be.. I'm almost positive its a kind of stink bug I am just unsure whether its eating the thrips or the buds. Either way, now my main concern is thrips. Didn't even know I had them and wondering if its too late in flowering to do anything? Do yall have experience with them or know what I should do?
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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Cwmoore577 said:
It could be.. I'm almost positive its a kind of stink bug I am just unsure whether its eating the thrips or the buds. Either way, now my main concern is thrips. Didn't even know I had them and wondering if its too late in flowering to do anything? Do yall have experience with them or know what I should do?
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If you found the thrips around where the majority of stink bugs are, then my guess would be they're eating the bugs and not the plants. do your plants look like they're being eaten?
 
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