Subject: What is this bug
Location: North Israel
November 29, 2013 8:45 am
Pls help me identify this bug
Signature: R.S Shorrosh
Dear R.S. Shorrosh,
Your insect is a Red Bug, Pyrrhocoris apterus, and it is commonly called a Firebug. According to TrekNature, it “is a common bug in Israel. Its an Euro-Siberian species. It can be found all over the Mediterranean region in Israel in high densities. It feeds of fruit juice and dead insect haemolymph.”
It’a also called “French Tribal Mask Bugs”, hehe.
http://williamwilt.deviantart.com/art/Crazy-French-Tribal-Mask-Bugs-128660270
Hi Cesar,
And here we thought your reference was to the recent controversy of the selling of Hopi masks by a Paris auction house which we just heard on the news. See: Judge Approves Auction of Scared Hopi Masks.
It’a also called “French Tribal Mask Bugs”, hehe.
http://williamwilt.deviantart.com/art/Crazy-French-Tribal-Mask-Bugs-128660270