View allAll Photos Tagged bug
An assassin bug from the genus Rhynocoris hunting on lavender, South of France.
Assassin bugs are insects from the order of hemiptera, recognizable by their four-parts piercing-sucking mouthparts, and sub-order heteroptera, characterized by forewings with both hardened and membranous portions.
They are either predatory or blood-suckers (Rhodnius prolixus is the main vector of the Chagas disease), majority of predators species are able to attack any insect orders they encounter.
There's 3 species of Rhynocoris that are extremely similar to each other in France:
R. iracundus, R. cuspidatus and R.rubricus, those species can be identified by the shape of their genital capsules.
Well, I won't be getting any squash this year. I don't know where they came from but for some reason I have squash borers. I had them before but I thought that was because of the soil in which I planted. I planted containers this year with new soil so I don't really understand why I got them.
hideous millipede appeared on shower curtain, actually ran over my stocking-enclosed foot! Tried to rinse it down drain but tub didn't drain fast enough. It sat unmoving; I thought it was drowned but, unsure, put kleenex around toilet brush and picked it up that way - it still lived! put it in toilet, added toilet-bowl cleaner, flushed it down.
..www.tom-horton.co.uk..7-9th March 2014..BuggedOut Weekender 2014..@ Pontins, Southport, UK..© Tom Horton
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 this photo -- 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.
A mirid bug I found zooming around on a fence post on the driveway. I think it's Anthocoris nemorum (not Polymerus unifasciatus as I originally posted---thanks Martin Brown for the correction).
I'm starting to feel badly at how little I know about plants & insects. This little guy was mighty cute, but I don't know his name! The wild grasses in my backyard are just crawling with life! : ) Seen on June 28, 2007 in Columbia County, New York, USA. Identified as a Two-Spotted Grass Bug!
Bug Light lighthouse in South Portland, Maine
My feeble attempts at being a photographer...some of the photos I've seen in some of these groups are so incredible...I'll never measure up :(
..www.tom-horton.co.uk..7-9th March 2014..BuggedOut Weekender 2014..@ Pontins, Southport, UK..© Tom Horton
My computer crashed last weekend, and I finally fixed it. I found three stink bugs on the electronic componets. After plucking them out with tweezers, the computer worked! Now I am really behind on my PAD photos and will try to catch up soon.
Plant bug (Coreoidea?)
Size: ~0.5 inch (12 mm)
June 11, 2015
Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
DSCF2128a