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A stinkbug, I think, feasts on a dead housefly in my backyard. This is a two shot focus stack., edited in Photoshop, Nik Color Efex Pro, and Lightroom.
This is a "Stink Bug" in the family Pentatomidae of the old insect order Hemiptera. Maybe it's a Green Stink Bug in the genus Chinavia of the tribe Nezarini? This one has its beak stuck in the phyllary of a female pistillate flower of Coyote Bush (Baccharis pilularis) in the Asteraceae plant family. (San Marcos Pass, 25 October 2013)
These bugs have remarkable beaks. I'm not sure of the anatomy, but I think the thin front stylets are sheathed by the sturdy rear labium. It's interesting to see them in separate pieces like this.
This is a travel day for us! We're going to Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, NY, to pick up Kid #3, to bring him home for spring break.
Don't know if I'll be posting later this evening. Please pray for people in Japan, as well as the 50 countries bracing for tsunami.
Common Name: Stink Bug nymph
Order Name: Hemiptera
Family Name: Pentatomidae
Many Hemiptera suck plant juices although some have evolved to suck blood and body fluids. Hemiptera groups include water scorpions, water boatman, backswimmers, water striders, plant bugs, bed bugs, assassin bugs, flat bugs, seed bugs, red bugs and stink bugs.
Stink bugs can be recognized by their characteristic oval body shape and each antennae being comprised of five segments. This immature larval stage is considerably more colorful than the adult form which was almost entirely black. True bugs undergo a common form of incomplete metamorphosis with three life stages. The eggs hatches into nymphs which grows ever closer to the adult form through a series of body molts. The last molt renders the final adult form which is then free to reproduce and initiate the next generation. This nymph was quite adept at producing the characteristic foul smell for which they use as a chemical defense tactic.
I was shooting a couple and they just watched this huge stinkbug crawl up my leg and never told me. I noticed and gave Daniel the camera to capture the moment!
The stinkbugs went missing for most of the summer, but now we're teeming with them. They were all over the house, the bushes, and catching the ones that get in is a frequent annoyance.
Bah, Humbug! -
Stinkbug can be kept in a matchbox and is a handy tool against nasty people. When the scrooge arrives in my office, I shall excuse myself under the pretext of serving tea. Deliberately leaving the door ajar, I’ll tip-toe back with my small bug and give stinky a tight squeeze. Locking the door secretly from outside, I chuckle on what's going to happen next. If the horrendous odour brings on a migraine on the scrooge, I would be please. Returning my office, I smile and check on the scrooge in glee.
After capturing and stinging the stinkbug deep in the snowberry bush, she dragged it up to a good platform using her mandibles. From here it's a short flight to her nest, where the prey is stashed as provisions for her larvae.
Portland, Oregon.
Location: Europe > Portugal > Leiria > Ansião
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Pentatomidae
Carpocoris sp.?, Holcostethus sp.?
But at this point I had to take matters into my own hands. I mean, how could you resist such a face??
I collected all the little bugs very carefully from the screen and transfered them to the violet. For one thing, they were headed in totally the wrong direction to find anything to eat. For another, I hope that they'll stay on the violet for a while and I can keep track of them, unlike if I left them to find a plant on their own.
Childhoods are plagued with random fears, they don't make much sense and usually stem from events of little importance. I used to be afraid of stinkbugs, a lot, in parts because of their low-pitched flying sound. But mostly for their depiction in Maya the Bee.
This is very similar to another green stinkbug in a different genus, Nezara viridula, however one can tell them apart by looking at the scent gland on the ventral surface. See BugGuide.
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Nezara viridula (Linnaeus)
The southern green stink bug is one of the largest stink bugs. It can be found in gardens, field crops, and roadside flowers. Adults are up to 3/4 of an inch long and solid green in color.
I chased this poor little bugger trying to get a good photo but this is all I got.
It was into our screen in room...looks crablike with it's feet
and look at the eyes!
id thanks to birdman 2695
Creepy! I found this guy inside my freshly laundered socks. Which is pretty amazing, since I have the weird habit of tying one sock around its match, so that I never have to match socks. (I used to put one inside the other, but it wouldn't dry as well that way.) So I'm not sure how he was in there.
I put my sock on. Felt something in my foot. Thought it was a rock. Took my shoe and sock back off. Turned my sock inside out, and kinda flailed about and/or yelled. Of course my next instinct was to get the camera.
The bug is in a cd spindle lid, and that monster-looking larvae thing underneath and to the right is a phone cord.
Stinkbug, cd spindle, telephone cord.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
December 22, 2009.
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