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Monday Morning Mystery 030909
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I believe this may be the bug I have found draining the life juices out of large monarch butterfly caterpillars. So I have to agree (even without positive identification) that killing it would be advisable.
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I’ve been seeing these creatures. I usually release them. Should I really be killing them?
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Probably the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug – an invasive that commonly winters indoors. Squash it.
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It’s a Hemipteran for sure, probably one of the nine native species of predatory Podisus stink bugs–probably more information than you wanted to hear, especially about a resident of “a room near the Celery Farm.” Not to worry–it only eats small children–of other bugs.
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True bug.
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Chris Reiser
I believe this may be the bug I have found draining the life juices out of large monarch butterfly caterpillars. So I have to agree (even without positive identification) that killing it would be advisable.
djbrown
I’ve been seeing these creatures. I usually release them. Should I really be killing them?
Patrick
Probably the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug – an invasive that commonly winters indoors. Squash it.
Tom Burr
It’s a Hemipteran for sure, probably one of the nine native species of predatory Podisus stink bugs–probably more information than you wanted to hear, especially about a resident of “a room near the Celery Farm.” Not to worry–it only eats small children–of other bugs.
Deedee Burnside
True bug.