Subject: What is this bug
Location: North Israel
November 29, 2013 8:45 am
Pls help me identify this bug
Signature: R.S Shorrosh
Firebug
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.”
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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.