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Spittle bug nymphs are also much less nimble than adults. Because of the weaknesses of these young bugs, they could be easy prey for predators. As a defensive mechanism, the nymphs produce these bubble clusters. The bubbles give the nymphs a moist environment to hide in as they suck on plant sap. Once they molt into sturdier, more agile adults, they no longer produce spittle.
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Here’s another pest that looks worse than it is, the aptly named Spittlebug (Cercopidae Family). There are some 23,000 species of spittlebugs. Yet most gardeners have never seen one. That’s because spittlebugs are very good at hiding. That mass of froth you see on your plant isn’t there to do your plant harm. It’s a very clever cover for the spittlebug. You don’t think so? Just try and find him.
Spittlebug nymphs can turn a liquid secretion into bubbles by moving or pumping their bodies. Once the bubbles have formed, spittlebugs use their hind legs to cover themselves with the froth. The ‘spittle’ serves multiple purposes.
It shields the spittlebugs from predators
It insulates them from temperature extremes
It prevents the spittlebugs from dehydrating
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The harlequin cabbage bug (Murgantia histrionica), also known as calico bug, fire bug or harlequin bug, is a black stinkbug of the family Pentatomidae, brilliantly marked with red, orange and yellow. It is destructive to cabbage and related plants in tropical America as well as throughout most of North America, especially the warmer parts of the United States.
www.stvincent.edu/wpnr | The Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve at Saint Vincent College hosted its annual Bug Camp for 5-6 year olds (with an adult). Campers search for butterflies, spiders, dragonflies, bees, beetles, and more!
Swallow Bugs (Oeciacus vicarius).
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica).
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center.
19 May 2018. Seagoville, Texas. Kaufman County.
Nikon D500. Nikkor AF-S 300mm f4E ED PF VR + TC-14e III teleconverter.
(420mm) f5.6 @ 1/640 sec. ISO 5600.
The tiny black specks on the nest are Swallow Bugs (Oeciacus vicarius), relatives of the infamous human bed bug. Best known for infesting colonial nesting species like Cliff Swallows, they can also torment solitary nesters like Barn Swallows on occasion. These parasites have also been known to enter human habitations and bite people when Cliff Swallows nest under the eaves of houses. KN
See also "BARN SWALLOW 27" following.
never seen this little bug before. Thought it was an extra large ant when I first spotted it, then thought it was a flightless wasp but then I spotted it's proboscis. very fast mover unlike most plant bugs. Body length about 5mm.
Id'd as Myrmecoris gracilis - a predator often on ant broods (but not the adults)
www.stvincent.edu/wpnr | The Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve at Saint Vincent College hosted its annual Bug Camp for 5-6 year olds (with an adult). Campers search for butterflies, spiders, dragonflies, bees, beetles, and more!
About to blitz the Fease with all 78bhp of surging Golf...
...and then break down on the start line on the next run. Not at all embarrassing.
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.
This tiny little bug just appeared on my laptop in my office, just now. I have no idea what he is (maybe a baby katydid?), but he doesn't look like a real bug. He's like a cartoon bug, all legs and antennas. In my head, he sits on my shoulder and speaks to me in a wacky French accent while we have many adventures.
He is a Cool Bug.
Not sure what this is, but it obviously wasn't camera shy because it let me come awful close. David says it is a popular insect to use for fly fishing, called a stone fly.
This tiny little bug just appeared on my laptop in my office, just now. I have no idea what he is (maybe a baby katydid?), but he doesn't look like a real bug. He's like a cartoon bug, all legs and antennas. In my head, he sits on my shoulder and speaks to me in a wacky French accent while we have many adventures.
He is a Cool Bug.