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Among the dock leaves there were dozens of Dock Bugs about today, mostly in pairs. I watched a lot of shaking and twitching and rubbing antenna and even more fighting and squabbling. Eventually I gave up hoping to get a photo of them mating but then a yard further down the path I found these two! Now I am looking for eggs. Last year I found nymphs of all stages so just need eggs to complete the set. www.flickr.com/photos/photospool/7776879410/
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These bugs are annoying my hibiscus plants a lot and cause mutant growth. The shield bugs especially cause most of the problems. There are over 330 000 insects in Australia and it is hard to identify them but I will try for an exact name.
I don't know what these are but they were *everywhere* in the park yesterday. This is the best picture I could get of them.
I do know that they are not moths.
This is another bug I spotted in the Jungles of Cambodia and capture with the macro focus feature of my camera. This bug has amazing colors.
I've never seen a bug like this before - his head looked like a little, bright red, round pinhead, and he had four tiny things on his back that looked like pom poms, lots of legs, pipe cleaner-like feeler things in the front and back, and little spiky hairs all over. He was crawling on a box of sparklers on my porch at our fourth of July cookout.
edit: according to mscaprikell, he is an Orgyia leucostigma, or White-marked Tussock Moth caterpillar.
This is the first shot I've uploaded from my cell phone to flicker. Plus it's the first time I've ever seen a blue potato bug
Order: Hemiptera (True Bugs, Aphids, Cicadas, Whiteflies, Hoppers, Scale Insects, and Mealybugs).
Size: 4-7mm
Range: British Columbia and southeastern Canada, throughout the United States, and into Mexico.
Description: Active from spring through fall in gardens, parks, and fields. They feed on a wide variety of plants - including columbines, grapes, potatoes, and raspberries - but are seldom considered pests.