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Spotted Firebug
(Corizus hyoscyami )
Peñones de San Francisco,
Hoya de la Mora,
Sierra Nevada,
Granada,
Spain
on the bottom left corner you can see the antennas of a firebug - just to get an impression of the size of this little baby fly.
De vuurwants (Pyrrhocoris apterus) is een insect uit de onderorde wantsen (Heteroptera) en de familie vuurwantsen (Pyrrhocoridae).
De vuurwants is een bontgekleurde soort die een overwegend helder rode kleur heeft met een karakteristiek patroon van zwarte lichaamsdelen en vlekken en hieraan is te herkennen. De wants komt in grote delen van Europa voor en is ook in België en Nederland te vinden. De wants is voornamelijk een planteneter die soms dode of levende insecten eet. De wants kan niet vliegen en is soms massaal aan te treffen bij lindebomen en andere planten die gegeten worden.
English :
The firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus, is a common insect of the family Pyrrhocoridae. Firebugs generally mate in April and May. Their diet consists primarily of seeds from lime trees and mallows.
They can be seen in tandem formation when mating which can take from 12 hours up to 7 days. The long period of copulating is probably used by the males as a form of ejaculate-guarding under high competition with other males.[1]
Anti-forestfire campaign in Idaho. Used to be lot's of these posted on the highways of Idaho. They are rare these days but you still see one from time to time. Found this one at an historical pull-out on Whitebird Mt. in central Idaho. I left the pick-up license plate in the crop so you can see the picture has not been inverted.
Random stranger knows exactly what to do when a camera is pointed at him. Thank you, whoever you are.
Taken at White Noise Festival, when I was somewhere where I wasn't supposed to.
Fire Bug found and photographed at Gedgrave, Suffolk (TM4104948808) by Cathy Smith, 20/4/2019. First Suffolk record since 1911 for this very rare species.
See www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Pyrrhocoridae/p_apteru...
This years first sighting of the firebugs, a true sign that spring is on the way. The red bugs live in a tree trunk next to the cellar door at Bergdalen, and I spotted this one as I was getting the bike out.
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Being dragged around by the ol' ball-n-socket.
The very colourful underside of Harlequin bugs (Dindymus versicolor).
Photographed in an urban garden, Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania.
Group of European firebugs(Pyrrhocoris apterus) with one adult male in the middle and juveniles(nymph).
iNat Obs: www.inaturalist.org/observations/237333385
iNat Pic: www.inaturalist.org/photos/422356260