Bugs of the month for September 2009 include: slugs, yellow jackets, stinging caterpillars, fire ants, love bugs, Green June beetles, loopers, Elongated Tree ants, armyworms, Diaprepes weevil.

The bugs of August 2009 include: Ensign wasps, Armyworms, Red-headed azalea caterpillars, Lantana lace bug, Asian hackberry aphid, Rose borer, Grape leaf skeletonizer.

Caterpillars and adults on shade trees and chinch bugs and parasitized armyworm.

Bugs of the month: Asian wooly aphid, Lubber grasshopper, June beetles, Crape myrtle aphids, Psocids, African honey bees, Orange dog caterpillar, Cicada killers.

Ants and insects of the month: Crazy raspberry ants, Caribbean crazy ant, Crazy ants, Paratrechina longicornis, leaf-cutting ant, Atta texana, Pharaoh ants, Monomorium pharaonis, Argentine ant, Linepithyema humile, Carpenter ants, Camponotus, Spider mites, Fall web worms, River birch sawfly, Citrus psyllid

Insects of the month for June 2009.

Bugs for the month of May 2009. We are getting hot and wet, and we are beginning to see some serious insect problems.

Bugs to watch for in May

Bugs of the month

Insects for March: Buck moths, Eastern tent caterpillars, Forest tent caterpillars, Tussock moths, Varied carpet beetles, Mites, White flies, Scales.

Bugs of the month.

Bugs of February

Bugs for January.

Bugs to watch for in December

Bugs of November to watch for in home and yards.

A few strange caterpillars and other insects are being found around the state.

A couple of bugs this month are new to the state. You're encouragedto pick up and send in anything you have not seen before. Especially if you get plants from outside the state or something unusual shows up after a storm or other extreme conditions.

The insect list is short this month, but one item in particular includes an in-depth discussion. The African honeybees and their recent discovery in two more parishes have some of the public concerned. Before there is a panic, some information needs to be presented.

We are seeing a decline in some insect populations but some explosions in others. Here are some potential problems this month.

As soggy as it has been one would hope that most of the insects had drowned, but alas, no such luck. Some have said they have become more relaxed and excited in the somewhat cooler environment and many have moved indoors to escape the constant drenches and standing puddles.

common beneficials in and around the yard.