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Leaffooted Bug

This does not bode well for the garden.  Saw 10 of them on the Mulberry Tree.
"Leaffooted bugs can ruin a late-season vegetable garden. Like stink bugs, which feed in a similar manner, leaffooted bugs attack a wide range of garden vegetables including, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, okra, peas, and beans.  They are especially damaging to tomatoes and they love tomatillios.  Damage is caused primarily by the highly mobile adults, which feed on fruit with their piercing-sucking mouthparts, injecting their toxic saliva in the process and causing soft, sunken spots in the fruit.  In addition, even mildly damaged fruit will often have an off taste.  Also like stink bugs, leaffooted bugs have a distinctive, unpleasant odor, and they tend to congregate in groups.
 
Adults make a loud buzzing sound as they fly, and gardeners who are busy picking vegetables are often startled by the sound and sometimes mistake these for bees or wasps."  --Courtesy of MSU, Extension

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