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This 5X7 print was made for a friend in exchange for her comics. If you are interested in the Bug Boys please visit her tumblr here: laurark.tumblr.com/
madrid, spain - december 2012
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If it is, it's a pest, accidentally imported from China or Japan, likely as a stowaway in packing crates, and first documented in the U.S. in 1998.
It is a "true bug," characterized by sucking mouthparts -- with a "beak" called a rostrum. Stinkbugs feed on plants; assassin bugs and ambush bugs feed on insects. This one appeared in my house suddenly -- maybe a stowaway in a pot of tulips from the grocery store, or having simply snuck in to get out of that 9 degree (F) (-12.8 C) chill we had a couple of days ago.
Fortunately I brought home half a dozen bug books from the libraries while researching ambush bugs and bees for an drawing in progress. It took a photograph and several books to get me close, and then the internet to get from one not-quite-right bug to another. Finally a nearly identical photo showed up under one of the false leads, and voila! I think I have it.
Thanks to Dr PhotoMoto I learned that many insects have ocelli -- simple eyes -- along with or instead of compound eyes. This one has two tiny round red ocelli just to the inside of his/her big "bug eyes." Also a pair of mostly invisible wings that overlap at the rear; parts of them show up slightly pinkish in the photo (see it below in the comments section) -- from the light, or a reflection from the red cap in there holding a plant I offered him. He's just under 1.5 cm long.
I'm fairly sure this the nymph of a green shield bug (Palomena prasina). It was feeding on a ripening blackberry in Walkley Cemetery, Sheffield (UK).
General failure reading drive C
Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
Airports should run something better than Windows. [See comments.]