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Box Bug (Gonocerus acuteangulatus)
This one suddenly appeared flying across my office and landed on a power lead...
In the beginning - before the spider count began - I had a goal to get a "nice" stink bug nymph.
It looks a bit like this Predatory Stink Bug (Asopinae) Podisus on bugguide: bugguide.net/node/view/117565/bgimage
Found in a field down the street in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Corrections appreciated.
It was a day of mixed emotions as we had driven two hundred odd miles there and back in a failed attempt to photograph swallowtail butterflies and their larvae.
We had been misled but having driven all that way we were not prepared to be beaten so we wandered around looking for possible subjects.
These are some of the results.
Spotted this tiny insect on a dead thistle head and assumed that it was some type of shield bug but which one?
It would be nice to know so can anyone help please?
FOOTNOTE:-
Thanks to Neva Svenson I have ben able to amend the title as it is nymph of a hawthorn shield bug.
Name: The Fire Bug
Secret Identity: Wally Wicklighter
Age: 33
Skills/Powers:
*A suit of flame resistant armor
*Absolutely no concept of right or wrong
*Lacks compassion
*Criminally insane
Weapons:
The Fire Bug utilizes a high powered flamethrower to completely incinerate his targets.
Background/Origin Story:
Wally Wicklighter is your typical loser. He was a weak and uncoordinated child who was constantly razed and picked on by his peers. He's never been the best looking guy, nor does he have any social skills, so his luck in the love department could best be described as "non-existent". To top it off, Wally has never been able to successfully hold down a steady job.
Wally has found enjoyment in two hobbies. The first was in becoming an amateur entomologists, or a bug collector. Wally especially enjoyed the part where he got to shove pins into helpless, squirming little insects as he mounted them into their little boxes. The second, and... well... illegal pursuit that Wally found enjoyable was the "art" of arson. Wally loves fire, and he loves to set things ablaze. Junk mail, boxes, trashcans in the alley, even hospitals... he loves to torch everything he can set his matches to.
Wally came by his suit and flamethrower while working as a janitor at Watt Tech. Needless to say, he stole the suit... a third hobby that he is quickly developing a liking for is theft... after finding out that he was fired for wasting too much time retrieving insect carcasses from the light fixtures around the office. Now Wally Wicklighter is the insane incinerator known as the Fire Bug.
Relationship to Other Characters:
Allies - The Skull, Barricade...
Enemies - He's fought The Crimson Cloak on more than one occasion as well as his former employer, the ever popular Captain Electron.
Pls. no notes on above image or group icons/invites/awards on comments. Thank you.
The Portland Breakwater Light (also called Bug Light) is a small lighthouse in South Portland, Maine. The lighthouse's flashing red beacon helped guide ships from Casco Bay through the entrance to Portland Harbor.
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Corey has a great old VW bug - great car. He is keeping it going with plans of restoring her some day.
I noticed this group of Boxelder bugs gathered on this piece of wood. Their red on black coloring is pretty striking. For a bug.
this bug gave me a hard time to shoot him... he just won't stop. i had to distract him like im a threat and that made him still. he he
Grüne Stinkwanze (Palomena prasin)
Kamera Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Belichtung 0,006 sec (1/160)
Blende f/13.0
Brennweite 180 mm
ISO-Empfindlichkeit 4000
Some strange bug i saw on our driveway at the weekend, so got the macro tubes out and snapped away, he wasn't moving much, then again, would you if some giant creature was stood above you with a camera?
CATCHIN' BUGS
300 Pieces
21.25" X 15"
Artist: Charles Wysocki
Manufacturer: Buffalo
Worked: March 2016
I needed to take a break, so I worked this little jewel in about an hour and a half. I love all of Charles Wysocki's puzzles!
The Portland Breakwater Light (also called Bug Light) is a small lighthouse in South Portland, Maine.
A Meadow Plant Bug, Leptopterna dolobrata, feeding on grass seeds in a prairie/meadow on TNC property in rural Walworth County, Wisconsin. June 30, 2019.
Poecilometis gravis
Family: Pentatomidae ( stink bugs , shield bugs )
Suborder: Heteroptera
Order: Hemiptera
I have had several observations of this genus locally in the past. Previous observations have all been of Poecilometis strigatus. However this one is a different species P. gravis. This one looks very similar to the previous observations but there are some minor differences: antennae colour, maybe more even punctation on the hemelytra, a more pronounced black dot on the hemelytra. All are consistent with P. gravis. One quite marked difference is the number of antennae segments; P. gravis has 5 segments whereas P. strigatus has only 4. In the case of this species, P. gravis, the second and third antennal segments are the same length.
It is usually assumed that stink bugs can be merely irritating with their unpleasant smelling spray. However the fluid can be hazardous if it gets in the eye and can cause corneal damage; injuries have been reported.
Reference
Shen YS, Hu CC. Irritant contact keratitis caused by the bodily fluids of a brown marmorated stink bug. Taiwan J Ophthalmol. 2017 Oct-Dec;7(4):221-223. doi: 10.4103/tjo.tjo_32_17. PMID: 29296555; PMCID: PMC5747233.
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A small Spider is watching a Bee inside a "Chelone obliqua"!
Explored 2013-9-30, highest position # 23
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Farmers knew of the Ladybird's value in reducing the level of pests in their crops and it was traditional for them to cry out the rhyme before they burnt their fields following harvests ( this reduced the level of insects and pests) in deference to the helpful ladybird:
Ladybug! Ladybug!
Fly away home.
Your house is on fire.
And your children all gone.
All except one,
And that's little Ann,
For she crept under
The frying pan.
The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. The fiery, dying star at its center is shrouded by a blanket of icy hailstones. This NASA Hubble Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 image shows impressive walls of compressed gas, laced with trailing strands and bubbling outflows. A dark, dusty torus surrounds the inner nebula (seen at the upper right).
At the heart of the turmoil is one of the hottest stars known. Despite a sizzling temperature of at least 450,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the star itself has never been seen, as it is hidden by the blanket of dust and shines most brightly in the ultraviolet, making it hard to observe. The Bug Nebula lies about 4,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Scorpius.
For more information please visit:
hubblesite.org/image/1628/news_release/2004-46
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A.Zijlstra (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
One of my favourites from the archive that I hadn't uploaded yet. It's a Syrphus torvus hoverfly.
(HÃ¥ret hageblomsterflue in Norwegian).
I spend the evening preparing for a family photo shoot tomorrow, a puppy shoot on Saturday and 5 confirmand photo shoots the next two weeks. Look forward to it!
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A few more close-up shots of insects.
There are two bugs in this shot. I can't identify either of them.
I've just had 6 weeks OS so I'm really looking forward to getting out and about with the Tas bugs again.
I can only see two tarsal segments on this bug nymph, but I suspect I'm being duped and it is actually Pentatomidae?? It was on one of prolific, weedy grass infested beds we call "garden".
Now that I've made that call it is guaranteed to be wrong :-)
Well, not a bug, a fly :-) I haven't used my macro lens in weeks (wah!) so I thought I'd post a macro shot from the summer. I hope everyone is looking forward to Thursday. I'm going to buy my turkey today. Happy Monday :-)