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Bugs on Hollyhocks

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From: Henry Di Cristofano City: Chicago, IL
Last year I found small black beetle-like bugs with orange markings on our hollyhocks. Today I found hundreds of bright red eggs encrusted on the stems of our sunflowers. Any idea of what these might be? They don't seem to fly.
	Extension Message From: Greg Stack Extension Educator, Horticulture University of Illinois Extension gstack@illinois.edu
Hi, Hard to say what they might be without seeing them but if they are in fact eggs there is a chance you can keep infestations of what they might turn into down to a minimum by just lightly scraping them off. If you wait for them to hatch you might have a harder time in controlling.
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