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Doodle bug, doodle bug,
Come out of your hole,
Your house is on fire,
And your children are burning up.
Photographed in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, July 2013.
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I found the most wonderful bug this morning, on a husk cherry plant. Doesn't it look like a frog? The edges of the shell are transparent. So cool!
The Wheel bug, a member of the Assassin bug family, little known and lesser seen: an insect identified by how it kills for a living, and here is starting to raise its hind leg
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Charlotte, NC – 2019OCT05 – Wheel Bug:
I spied it "hiding" in our potted bromeliad on our front porch.
The wheel bug (Arilus cristatus) is an assassin bug, and one of the largest terrestrial true bugs in North America, up to 1½" (38 mm) in length. The name "wheel bug" comes from its cog-shaped dorsal armor, the only insect in the United States of America with such a structure. The orangy beak at the front of its long, tubular head can pierce soft tissue (like your finger), injecting digestive enzymes and powerful neurotoxin lethal to other arthropods. The wheel bug feeds mainly on insect pests, thus is considered a beneficial insect.
A wheel bug's bite (pierce) is severely painful, and slow to heal in humans: be very careful in handling these bugs (cautious, or avoid handling), yet wheel bugs are not aggressive toward humans, and won't attack if not picked up. I didn't know that and I picked it up. Four times!
After I handled this bug, I read about its excruciatingly painful injection (10 times more painful than a hornet sting or snake bite).
I am holding this bug in 118 of the 119 one-handed photos I took today, some with our Nikon, mostly with my cell phone.
Hope you enjoy the 12% of my photos, and I did put the bug back!
I've tried trice before to get a ring flash- one was got from ebay but was advertised wrongly so would not work on my camera and the other was very cheap from Poland and didn't work properly either. Today, my sigma one arrived- second hand from ebay again, but fantastic! I have only had 5 minutes in the garden with it- I was focussing on the bug here deep inside the tulip - a shot I never could have got on a windy day before hand held. i'm looking forward to getting some better shots with it!!
A praying mantis on a car in a church parking lot.
A short video of pictures from the area is at bugs . I did that because for some reason, the video gets hung up in processing and never finishes on here.
Taken 08/26/2020 123158.
about 1 cm long
The background is a dusty red clay paver driveway. All the lines between the pavers are completely blurred away.
It sounds like a bad joke: A small brown bug that appears benign until you step on it. Then it releases a nasty odor, a kind of aromatic flipping of the bird to the cruel world.
But there’s really nothing funny about the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, a species native to Asia that is making itself comfortable in New Jersey homes.
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"Outside, they’re everywhere. Inside, we remove one a day," said Jack Ciattarelli, a Hillsborough resident who is the Somerset County freeholder director. "I say remove, because we’ve learned, the hard way, not to kill the little critters."
First discovered in Allentown, Pa., in 1996, the nickle-sized bugs have invaded New Jersey and spread across the Eastern seaboard, annoying homeowners and creating havoc for farmers. With no natural enemies, they are increasing in numbers and no formal defense has been found to combat them.About two centimeters long with blue metallic spots and white antennae, the stink bugs seek shelter indoors in the fall. Dormant in winter, they become a nuisance in the spring. They are slow moving and noisy in flight, get caught in lamp shades and blinds and they flutter around ceilings, all in an effort to get outside.
Homeowners have learned the hard way how to handle them. Blunt force is not recommended, since crushing the bugs’ abdominal scent glands causes the stink. A better defense is to plug in the vacuum.
The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Latin Name: Halyomorpha halys
What they look like: Shaped like a crest or a shield, can be up to 2 cm long with a brown body, bluish metallic spots and white antennae
First found in U.S.: Allentown, Pa., in 1996
Prevention: Seal holes in exterior of home. The professional application of a pesticide spray on exterior of home may also be an effective deterrent.
How to get rid of them:Vacuum them up or toweling them and flushing them down the toilet. Crushing the bug will emit a strong odor.
"They don’t do any damage, but they’re a problem because they’re not native. It’s typical with things like this. They go through a population explosion because there’s no control for them," said George Hamilton, an entomologist at the Rutgers University’s Pest Management Office. "They have this nasty behavior where they congregate in large numbers and they go inside the houses in the fall."
But they are a growing concern for farmers, Hamilton said. Stink bugs enjoy the fruits of various flora. They have been damaging crops as they spread south and west through the United States, he said.
In northwestern New Jersey, apple farmers have reported as much as 70 percent of their crop being damaged by the bothersome bugs over the last two year, Hamilton said.
Because they are new to the country, entomologists are still testing ways to control the bugs’ population en masse.
"They’ve really only taken a strong push through New Jersey in the last two years," said Dan Bradbury of Viking Pest and Termite Control. "We used to get a call here and there now it’s multiple calls every day."
Rutgers’ Pest Management Office recommends sealing holes in the foundation, siding and light fixtures of the home to prevent the bugs from getting inside. Hamilton said stink bugs may be deterred by pesticide sprays applied by professional pest control companies to the exterior of a home, though the treatment is not guaranteed.
Once the bugs are indoors, however, the use of insecticides can be dangerous and is not recommended ,according to Leonard Douglen, executive director of the New Jersey Pest Management Association.
"You don’t want to be spraying insecticides inside a living environment," he said.
Bradbury suggests flushing and vacuuming for best results, but he doesn’t rule out the boot.
"I’ve smelled them and I don’t think it’s that bad," said Bradbury, whose chosen career suggests a higher tolerance for the ick factor. "But I guess it’s all up to interpretation."
Briolette Bug - 4-5 November, 2009
I was looking at this orange tourmaline briolette in my collection, trying to think of what to make with it, and decided on a bug. I thought it would look perfect as the abdomen peeking through lacy wire wings. Here's the result. :D
A deraeocoris flavilinea plant bug on an ox-eye daisy flower, in the garden on day 20 of 30 Days Wild.
Bug Ranch, Amarillo - Texas - From my Book "Route 66 - The Mother Road!"; you can check it out in www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/718722
The Bug Light lighthouse in South Portland, Maine. Corey Templeton Photography | Portland Daily Photo | Facebook