nonononono! it's not, I've been looking it up. it's a lady bug! At 03:17 AM 9/9/98 -0500, you wrote: >Sounds like what we call the potatoe bug in the hills of Tennessee. >Which doesn't mean a thing since I live on "The Big Mountain" past "Tip >Top" up on "Manory Hill" on the "Coon Hunter's Road". All local names. >They hang out in garden too, peppers as well as flowers. I get a rush of >them every year about this time with some wintering over on the plants >inside. My bug doesn't cause damage but then again I don't grow >potaotes...zaze >