Found this laying eggs on my aluminum fence pole
Location: North shore suburbs of Chicago
August 15, 2011 8:25 am
I saw this colorful insect laying eggs on a pole in our backyard. It moved slowly and left a pod of about 10-15 tightly stuck together eggs in about 4 rows. Any idea what this insect is?
Signature: Bill Marcus
Stink Bug Lays Eggs
Hi Bill,
This is a Stink Bug and eggs laid in that manner are very typical of Stink Bugs. This sure looks to us like Banasa dimiata, a species BugGuide reports “from the entire United States, southern Canada and northern Mexico.” BugGuide also indicates: “Many different possible host plants are listed for this species, including birch (Betula spp.), bearberry (Arctostaphylos spp.) and chokeberry (Photinia spp.).”
Daniel, wow I had no idea that stink bugs were that colorful or relatively (to my preconceived vision) large. Thank you for the quick info
Bill
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¶ Posted 15 August 2011 § Eggs ‡ ° Wonders from Malaysian Borneo!
Location: Malaysian Borneo
August 12, 2011 9:09 pm
Hey Bug-people!
A challenge for you!
I took myself backpacking through Southeast Asia a while ago, and came back with some amazing pictures of bugs.
I’ve included three of what were to me the most fascinating and baffling varieties. Can you help me identify them?
Cheers!
Signature: Doug
Immature Stink Bug
Hi again Doug,
We have split up your question into separate postings. The red insect is an immature Red Stink Bug, Pycanum rubeus, which we identified on the National Geographic Stock Photo website. Your third insect is a larval Firefly not unlike this North American example. Did we meet your challenge?
¶ Posted 12 August 2011 § ‡ ° Beautiful W. African beetle
Location: Dakar, Senegal
August 11, 2011 4:11 pm
Greetings from Senegal. I found this beetle dead on my roof/patio today (August). Amazing coloring both top and bottom. Any idea what it is?
Signature: Wayne in Dakar
Rainbow Shield Bug
Hi Wayne,
This is not a beetle. Its piercing/sucking mouth, revealed in the view of the underside, is an indication that this is a True Bug. It is a Lychee Shield Bug, Chrysocoris stolli, which you can verify on TrekNature and on India Nature Watch. Shield Bugs are sometimes called Jewel Bugs because of their beautiful coloration. We were not aware that Africa was part of the range of the Lychee Shield Bug.
Rainbow Shield Bug
Correction: Rainbow Shield Bug
November 13, 2011
Upon creating a new posting today, we have found information that correctly identifies this beauty as a Rainbow Shield Bug. Dudu Diaries calls this beauty the Rainbow Shield Bug, but does not provide a scientific name. It seems in 2009, we received a correction from someone who identified the Rainbow Shield Bug as Calidea dregii, citing a FlickR link. We have also located a pdf entitled 2010-01_Alert_Rainbow_Shield_Bug that identifies the Rainbow Shield Bug as Calidea dregii and provides some fascinating information on the species including: “The Rainbow Shield Bug suck the sap from developing seeds leading to seeds dropping prematurely or not developing fully. In cotton it leads to staining and therefore a lower price if the bolls do not drop prematurely. The low number of mature Jatropha seeds observed in Guinea-Bissau is likely caused by seed dropping due to damage from Rainbow Shield Bugs.” Your photo illustrates a winged adult as well as some immature nymphs. Now with our new research, we need to correct our archives.
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¶ Posted 12 August 2011 § ‡ ° White Stink Bug?
Location: Lebanon County, PA
August 4, 2011 2:32 pm
Alright so I know there are many different species of insects but a White Stink Bug with Red markings… While I was frolicking through the forest in Central, PA I found this awesome insect. I’ve done some research but have not found a name or answer to what this bug is. It is exactly the size of a stink bug but its white, with red markings. Maybe an Albino? I don’t know, so I’ll leave it up to you.
Signature: Jeremy
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, freshly metamorphosed
Hi Jeremy,
Based on the striped antennae, our gut instinct is that this is a light Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, an invasive species that has gotten a foothold in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Perhaps it is a light individual, or perhaps it is freshly metamorphosed and it has not darkened yet. Sure enough, we found a visual match on BugGuide.
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unknown bug
Location: Lincolnton, GA
August 2, 2011 10:30 pm
8/1/11
These started showing up a week ago a few at a time and have increased to hundreds today (pic 1). Some have laid what seems to be an egg pattern similar to the Harlequin Bug (pic 2).
Thanks
Signature: Jeff McKinney
Lablab Bugs
Hi Jeff,
Your home has been invaded by a recent introduced Invasive Exotic species, the Bean Plataspid, Megacopta cribraria, also knows as the Globular Stink Bug or Lablab Bug. The Bean Plataspid was recently introduced to Georgia from India or China, where it is native. It has since been reported in South Carolina as well, according to BugGuide which reports: “in Oct. 2009 was invading homes in large numbers in GA”. The University of Georgia Cooperative Education website has a very informative PDF entitled Megacopta cribraria as a Nuisance Pest. The Lablab Bug is known to invade homes when cool weather sets in.
Lablab Bugs
According to BugGuide, known food plants are legumes including soybeans, and though this Invasive Exotic species has many negative attributes, a benefit is that its primary host plant is reported to be kudzu, owing to yet another common name, Kudzu Bug. If you have kudzu growing nearby, you might want to consider trying to control the invasive vine before the insect population reaches an uncontrollable level, though your photo indicates that time may have already passed. The Nature Closeups photography blog has some great photos of the Lablab Bug.
Eggs of the Lablab Bug
Unidentified Bug
Location: Western Ghats, South India, India
August 2, 2011 12:42 am
Hi, my name is Gaurav and i am from Goa, India. I found this bug at various forest places in the Western ghats region. its about 3cm long. usually seen in rain forest areas.
Signature: Gaurav Shirodkar
Unknown Stink Bug
Dear Guarav,
This is either a Stink Bug in the family Pentatomidae, or a Shield Bug in the family Scutellaridae. We sometimes have trouble distinguishing them apart, especially with tropical species. We will try to get an exact species identification for you.
Unknown Stink Bug
¶ Posted 02 August 2011 § ‡ ° name that bug
Location: bel air maryland
July 30, 2011 2:40 pm
Found this creep on my deck…any help on what it is?
Signature: lisa c
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Nymph mimics knot hole
Hi Lisa,
We are terribly amused by your photo because this Brown Marmorated Stink Bug nymph appears to be mimicking the knot hole in your deck. Here is a photo from BugGuide for comparison. According to BugGuide, the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug is: “native to Asia (a crop pest), adventive and spreading in NA: introduced near Allentown, PA now abundant from NJ to MD, also in OR, CA, WA.“ We frequently get complaints from folks in Maryland that adult Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs enter homes in the fall to hibernate, sometimes in prodigious numbers.
unknown bug
Location: Thorold… near Niagara Falls
July 12, 2011 12:52 am
I LOVE your website and I tried to identify this bug but to no avail. I live in Thorold Ontario, it is summer and he was hanging out on my bathroom window near the back porch light. I have never seen this bug before and love his green pyramid on his back. Thanks for all your hard work!! I have identified many bugs because of you!
With appreciation,
Tracey Ross
Signature: Tracey A. Ross
I found the bug! It was a stink bug!! Thanks anyway!
Tracey
Stink Bug
Hi Tracey,
We are happy you were able to self identify your Stink Bug. Should you care, we can also provide the species identification. It is Banasa dimiata, based on photos posted to BugGuide. We will be out of the office for several days at the end of the week, and we are post dating your submission to go live on Friday.
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