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Bugs Bunny / Heft-Reihe
[Christmas Carrot Tree]
cover: Ralph Heimdahl
Dell Comics / USA 1956
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
This ladybug was bright red, while most ladybugs I've seen have an orange colour. And for those who are wondering: yes, this bug IS alive, it was drinking from the lavender I think :)
© 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.
I found this bug wandering around out in the conservatory - moving nice and slowly for me. Ultra-macro shot around 1.6x magnification.
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. . .
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a Platycranus bicolor mirid bug from gorse opposite the visitor centre at Hastings Country Park - note the hair scales and broad vertex on this late summer gorse specialist
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.
I found this little bug sweater on my desk yesterday, I had forgotten about it (happens a lot here), so I made a pair of really comfy shorts and let someone go wild in the garden..
After all the winter months doing just landscape and street photography, today I went out looking for bugs for the first time this year and I could find some of my loved damselflies :-) It served as well for using the Oly in these matters for the first time with the Zuiko 60 mm macro.