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© Brian E Kushner
I've seen many brown stink bugs but this is the first Green one.
The green stink bug or green soldier bug (Acrosternum hilare) is a stink bug belonging to the family Pentatomidae.
According to Dr. David Rider of North Dakota State University the generic name is wrong. The genus name Acrosternum should be restricted to a handful of Old World, small, pale green species that live in dry arid areas. The larger, brighter green species that live in both the Old and New Worlds should actually go by the generic name Chinavia, therefore this species should be called Chinavia hilaris.
It is found in orchards, gardens, woodlands and crop fields throughout North America, feeding with their needle-like mouthparts on the juices of a wide variety of plants from May until the arrival of frost. Adults develop a preference for developing seeds and thus become crop pests (tomato, bean, pea, cotton, corn, soybean, eggplant). When no seeds are present, they also feed on stems and foliage, thus damaging several fruit trees, such as the apple, cherry, orange and peach trees.
Its color is typically bright green, with narrow yellow, orange, or reddish edges.
It is a large, shield-shaped bug with an elongate, oval form and a length between 13-18 mm. It can be differentiated from the species Nezara by its black outermost three antennal segments. Its anterolateral (= in front and away from the middle) pronotal margin is rather straight and not strongly arced such as in Acrosternum pennsylvanicum
Both adults and nymphs have large stink glands on the underside of the thorax extending more than half-way to the edge of the metapleuron. They discharge large amounts of this foul-smelling liquid when disturbed.
[edit] Reproduction
Second instar
They attach their keg-shaped eggs on the underside of foliage in double rows of twelve eggs or more. The green stink bug produces one generation in the North and two generations in the South. The early instar nymphs are rather brightly colored and striped, turning green when approaching adulthood.
A fly with a very shiny green body on a very yellow flower. Spotted in the walled garden at Burton Agnes Hall. Fortunately the sun came out and increased the background contrast for me.
BTW , loads of butterflies fluttering around. But as I had the wrong lens on, they took flight immediately I moved toward them, unlike this friendly fly who stayed still for ages.
An inmature form (nymph) of an assasing bug. A fierce predator of other insects.
Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Pselliopus sp.
Oncopeltus sordidus
Family: Lygaeidae
Order: Hemiptera
There are at least 40 described species in the genus Oncopeltus which is part of the large family of bugs, Lygaeidae.
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Bug tour at the Intu Metro Centre, Gateshead, North East England. On display from Feb 2nd to March 2nd 2019. . .
700E vs 850ES Bond Bug (s)
Presumably the latter has a bigger engine and a far more luxurious interior ;-)
Marzipan modelling which was part of my City and Guilds 7900 design in sugarcraft. I really enjoyed making this except for the stick insect which gave me a lot of problems propping him up and making the stick hands and legs.
These bugs are nymphs of the one I posted in the previous picture. They stay close together for a while; the adults seem to like a little more space to themselves.