Pretty white mystery bug

[Anniekay]

I was clearing out my pole bean bed, looked down and this little lovely thing was on my glove. Reminds me of a half-completed doily !!



I carried her all over, into the house to get my phone, outside again to put her back and couldn't get her to crawl off my glove. Finally got her back in the garden though.

What is she? I've never seen the likes of her, have you?

 

[Zigs]

Cor

Thought it might have been a crab spider but I googled that and it isn't

 

[Anniekay]

Cor

Thought it might have been a crab spider but I googled that and it isn't

It does have claws on it's front legs, which is quite unusual, don't you think ? He only has 6 legs though.

I had a white spider in the yard. He lives in a little tunnel he made in the soil and leaps out at passing bugs. Pure white with black eyes.

 

[YumYum]

Looks like a white wooly aphid. In the last week or so they look like ashes from a nearby fire coming down but it is really bugs instead of ashes.

 

[Anniekay]

Looks like a white wooly aphid. In the last week or so they look like ashes from a nearby fire coming down but it is really bugs instead of ashes.

I don't think so but thank you for replying. Legs and head are very different and it isn't wooly nor were there more of them, as you would expect with aphids.

 

[Anniekay]

I think I found it !!
* does happy dance*
It's the nymph of an Ambush bug !!

bugguide.net/node/view/1564557/bgimage
Ambush bug, (subfamily Phymatinae), any of 291 species of bugs (order Heteroptera) that are most abundant in the tropical Americas and Asia and that hide on flowers or other plant parts, from which they ambush their prey. When prey approaches closely enough, the ambush bug grasps it with its front legs. The upper section (tibia) of each foreleg has teethlike structures that mesh into similar structures on the lower, greatly thickened leg section (femur). Holding its victim in these pincers, the ambush bug inserts its short beak and sucks out the body fluids. Even though the ambush bug is small (usually less than 12 mm, or 0.5 inch), its prey may be as large as a bumblebee, wasp, or butterfly.

Good thing I didn't assume him a pest!!

 

[Zigs]

Cool @Anniekay

I found one of these under my cabbages

 

[Anniekay]

Cool @Anniekay

I found one of these under my cabbages

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ughhh, pretty dusty blue reminds me of denim. What is he @Zigs

 

[Zigs]

ughhh, pretty dusty blue reminds me of denim. What is he @Zigs

Devil's Coach Horse Beetle

They come when you grow these

 

[Anniekay]

Devil's Coach Horse Beetle

They come when you grow these

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Hmmm, wonder if I could find a Coach and harness small enough...