(Musgraveia sulciventris, young adult)

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Shield Bug acrobatics! HBBBT ;0)

Micron pigma, watercolour

Holed up in the purple leaf of a purple heart flower plant...

090/365,

Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia

Bold jumping spider and brown marmorated stink bug

Leaving top of the world...

A celebration of the colour green.

These shield bugs feed on solanaceous plants especially the genus Solanum, which includes potatoes, tomatoes and wild tobacco.

12 mm length

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You would never know how furry these guys are unless you take a close look. This is one shot, no stack @ 5x mag

My garden 😊 🌹🌷 🌞

Photo from Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peruvian Amazon.

The brown marmorated stink bug is another invasive species that thrives in our area. It "was accidentally introduced into the United States from China or Japan. It is believed to have hitched a ride as a stowaway in packing crates or on various types of machinery. The first documented specimen was collected in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in September 1998." ...Wikipedia.

A few years ago they were in our area in biblical numbers. Now it's populations seems to have declined a bit

Known as Shield Bugs or Shieldbugs in Britain.

The invasive Brown Marmorated Stinkbugs have recently been launching an assault on my dad's windows, so when I came upon this scenario under the porch stairs the other night, I cheered for the spider. It didn't seem repulsed by the bug, and you can see it was maneuvering silk around in an attempt to ensnare it further.

9 Arachtober 2022

Common House Spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum

Hixson, TN • 5 October 2022

A very pretty quarter-inch stink bug nymph found in Montana. I love the dark green speckles.

stinkbug? on a bougainvillea flower

stack of 8 photos

Found in Sullivan Canyon

Graphosoma lineatum

Stink Bug in the Window - Sony A7S II, Fotodiox Macro Tube, Minolta MD Rokkor X 45mm f2

Yuck! Interesting to look at, especially his underside on a window, but I am no fan of stinkbugs. Birch shield bug Elasmostethus interstinctus

One year we had them so bad, they would get inside of our clothes and if you didn't realize, and get them out, they would even bite. HARD! Then you smash them and they STINK!

We seem to have more robins this year than usual, maybe they will keep the stinkbugs in check....

stink-bug

...Stink-Bug-Soda... :-)

"This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?"

Quote - Kurt Vonnegut

Update: Halyomorpha halys, the brown marmorated stink bug, or simply the stink bug, is an insect in the family Pentatomidae, and it is native to China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. It was accidentally introduced into the United States, with the first specimen being collected September 1998 in Allentown, PA. From Wiki.

And if you want to read more about them..... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatomidae

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The Everest of all dandelions...this is a shield bug or otherwise known stinkbug, they come in many colours and to me look like something from an egyptian tomb! Difficult shot as i was out in the fields with no tripod and breeze!! :(

I was enjoying an evening on the porch watching this bluebird feeding the fledglings when I noticed he was bringing them stink bugs (the invasive kind).

Cool to see our native species adapting to eat the invaders!

Better to see than to smell

(Musgraveia sulciventris)