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After a hot Labor Day weekend with temps in the 90's, things are cooling off fast. 70's for high today. Still no rain.
I'm seeing a lot of fall flowers out there. Asters, Goldenrod, Milkweed and many tall grasses.
Day Lily season at the cottage last summer.
Maine
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"Thomas Kuhar, a professor of entomology at Virginia Tech, and his team have been gathering stinkbugs for the past three years near his campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, to use in lab experiments. The bugs spend the winter outside in insulated buckets that mimic the walls, shingles, and attics that they inhabit when the temperature drops.
That normally works out quite well for the bugs—but this year stinkbugs have been, well, dropping like flies.
“In the previous two years, natural mortality averaged about 20-25 percent,” he wrote in an email. In January 2014, however, Kuhar’s team discovered that the subfreezing temperatures had killed off 95 percent of the population."
newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/26/stinkbugs-win...
Naturally, the 5% that survived are in my area. *sigh*
Carpocoris cf. purpureipennis, Pentatomidae
Size: 2 mm
Early morning stack of a bunch of newly hatched stink bugs.
They were perched on a very delicate piece of grass spike and I opted to use my modified light tent to reduce wind movement. As a result the lighting has become very enclosing with a studio like appearance. I'm not a big fan of this kind of lighting myself since it doesn't look very natural to me, but I'm ready to make exceptions.
Stacked from 29 exposures in Zerene Stacker.
Sony NEX-7, Canon MP-E65 @ 1/5s, f/6.3, ISO100
A seemingly happy Stink Bug. I mean, he looks fairly happy.
Gear: Bausch and Lomb 26mm f/1.9 C-mount lens, Fotodiox C-mount to E-mount adapter, Fotodiox E-mount Macro Extension Tube, Sony A7R II.
These are Hibiscus / Cotton Harlequin Bugs. Some people call them "stink bugs." I call them "fart bugs."
Photo from the Tambopata Research Centre (TRC), Peru.
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I can't resist one more photo of the true bug that I show in my [Previous] two photos - here it is looking right at me. I believe it is species Banasa dimidiata in the family Pentatomidae of the Heteroptera, Hemiptera. These bugs look almost too pretty to be native, but apparently they are. What colors! (San Marcos Pass, 4 February 2019)
(Pentatomoidea) A rather large dark yellowish stink bug that we've found courtesy of another macro enthusiast we stumbled upon during last Saturday's trip to Admiralty Park, Singapore. There are actually four of these female stinkbugs guarding steadily their little babies and some unhatched eggs underneath their bodies. By instinct, they seem to have no care in the world but stay there and guard steadily their babies and eggs.
Stink bugs are also known as shield bugs or chest bugs. They have glands in their upper thorax that emit foul smelling liquid as their defense to predators, hence their smelly label.
Pentatomidae, Greek pente meaning five and tomos meaning section, are a family of insects belonging to order Hemiptera including some of the stink bugs and shield bugs. The scutellum body is typically half of an inch long, green or brown color, usually trapezoidal in shape, giving this family the name "shield bug". The tarsi are 3-segmented. The forewings of stink bugs are called hemelytra, with the basal half thickened while the apex is membranous (as are the hindwings). The stink bug, also called stinkbug, derives its name from its tendency to eject a foul smelling glandular substance secreted from pores in the thorax when disturbed. The chemicals involved include aldehydes, making the smell similar to that of coriander; whether or not a human finds the smell unpleasant or pleasant may be genetic. In some species the liquid contains cyanide compounds with a rancid almond scent. This is a form of antipredator adaptation.
The idiomatic term "stink bug" is also applied to distantly related species such as Boisea trivittata, the "boxelder bug", and entirely different types of insects such as beetles in the genus Eleodes ("pinacate beetles").
Many stink bugs and shield bugs are considered agricultural pest insects, because they can create large populations which feed on crops (damaging production), and they are resistant to many pesticides. They are a threat to cotton, corn, sorghum, soybeans, native and ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, weeds, and many cultivated crops. However, some genera of Pentatomidae are considered highly beneficial: the anchor bug, which can be distinguished by the red-orange anchor shape on the adult, is one example. It is a predator of other insects, especially Mexican bean beetles, Japanese beetles, and other pest insects.
California.
This is a Pinacate Beetle (genus Coelocnemis, Tenebrionidae, Coleoptera) showing its rear end in a pile of two-year-old wood chips in the canyon today. It's trying to hide "Ostrich style" - if it can't see you then you can't see it. The genus Eleodes beetles are similar, but this one has fine golden-brown hairs on the lower half of the inside margin of the hind tibiae, which are visible in my photo. It's also known as a Stink Beetle or Stinkbug or Acrobat Beetle or Clown Beetle, but I prefer the old name. Wikipedia says that "the name pinacate is Mexican Spanish, derived from the Nahuatl (Aztec) name for the insect, pinacatl..." Kids like to torment these large beetles - don't let them! The beetles put their heads on the earth, think of them as wise. These beetles are said to release a brew of noxious chemicals from their rear ends, but I can't vouch for that. This is my photo for the Macro Mondays group, with the theme of "Chip(s)" - wood chips in this case. I've been trying for a few days to get an acceptable photo for the group, and I finally got this one at the last minute this morning. (San Marcos Pass, 22 May 2017)
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Only my second time to find these, and the first time I found them the little stinkbugs were still hanging out near them. Unlike many insect eggs, these are on the top of the leaf, and quite visible, so I can only guess that not much finds them an appetizing meal.
A new species of stink bug called Amblycara innocens has been found in Taiwan and on an island called Palawan in the Philippines. Before its discovery, it was believed that the genus Amblycara contained only one species called Amblycara gladiatoria. The news species is described in the journal Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae.
Mareeba wetlands, Queensland, Australia This Stink Bug is protecting several young that are hiding underneath.
Degonetus serratus, Family: Pentatomidae
ID Credit: Many thanks to
Flickr members wild things and rockwolf for the wonderful discussion
Prof. David A. Rider (North Dakota State University)
Prof. M Nayyar Azim ( as in tribe Degonetini (Azim & Shafee, 1984) )
Dr. J. Poorani (National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources)
For more info visit: IndiaNatureWatch