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"BUGGED" is about AGGRAVATION.

IT'S ABOUT BEING HASSLED and HOUNDED and BITCHED AT. It's about every little AND BIG PROBLEM that continuously shadows us during our lives.

Like the buzzing of a mosquito in your ear at night, these problems and hassles and often, PEOPLE ... will not leave us alone! Thus, we are "BUGGED!"

  

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Mississippi Kites; Western Massachusetts nesting site

Oncopeltus fasciatus

 

5 October 2016

 

© Bruce Bolin K1__0682ce

The radio aerial of an old VW Beetle. Snapped with a Zenitar 50/1.7 and Raynox M-250 Magnifier.

Plant bug X2. Issus coleoptratus. Focus stacked using zerene

Plant bug. Deraeocoris flavilinea I think

Osijek Croatia

It’s that time of year when stink bugs think they should be living inside the house. This one was on my office window back in April 2016. The ones that enter get gently picked up with a tissue and escorted back outside.

 

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Fly on the wings of love...

I do like Summer but I hate the bugs. At least this one posed for me!

PA- Summer

Red Cabbage Bug

(Eurydema ornata)

Estepona,

Málaga,

Spain

couple of hours with the macro

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Mixed series of five. Not sure what these are? Any ideas?

about 6mm long (or across)

Petit insecte inconnu sur fond de salsifi en fleur.

Si un connaisseur connait "la marque" de cette petite bête, je suis preneur...

mixed media collage

"Bug eyed" 4-Ways along US 22 at Harrison St in Zanesville, Ohio

River Bug at sunset, Mierzwice Stare

Jumping plant louse X2. Psyllidae

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 24 - 105 L IS USM

In Bug's language, barking means, "Chase me!"

The Cotton Harlequin Bug - Tectocoris diophthalmus

Family Scutelleridae .

 

This image has been captured with my Nikon 200mm, f/4, Micro lens in my daughters garden, Upper Coomera.

 

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Bow chicka wow wow!

Bug came to work

 

A Doll A Week 2010

Dicyphus species on geranium flower

The wheel bug (Arilus cristatus), in the family Reduviidae, is one of the largest terrestrial true bugs in North America, being up to 1.5 inches (38 mm) in length. A characteristic structure is the wheel-shaped pronotal armor. They are predators upon soft-bodied insects such as caterpillars, Japanese beetles, etc., which they pierce with their beak to inject salivary fluids that dissolve soft tissue. Because most of their prey are pests, wheel bugs are considered beneficial insects. The are as beneficial to the garden as ladybugs. They are notourious for eating stinkbugs.

 

Wheel bugs are common in eastern North America, although many people in the region have never seen them. They are camouflaged and very shy, hiding whenever possible.

 

Wheel bugs are highly regarded by organic gardeners because they consume a variety of insects and their presence indicates a healthy, pesticide-free ecosystem.

 

The wheel bug has a characteristic dorsal crest, shaped like a wheel or cog. It moves and flies slowly, and in flight produces a noisy buzzing sound. As with other assassin bugs, its proboscis arises from the anterior end of its long, tubular head and unfolds forward when feeding. The bug plunges its beak into its victim, pinning its prey with its front legs. It then injects enzymes into the victim, paralyzing it and dissolving its insides, and proceeds to drain the resulting fluids. The bite of a wheel bug is very painful and may take months to heal (sometimes leaving a small scar), so caution is highly advised when handling them.

 

The wheel bug is also noted to be very vicious in the wild, and cannibalistic behaviors between them have been noted; for example, nymphs may prey on one another and the female may feed on the male after mating is concluded.

 

It possesses two scent glands (red-orange in color) that can be everted from its abdomen, usually in reaction to being disturbed. The scent produced by it is not as powerful as that produced by the stink bug, but is still strong enough to be detected by humans.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_bug

This small bug has a length from about 1 - 2 mm.

The photo was made free hand.

Assassin Bug

Phalaborwa

Limpopo Province

South Africa.

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