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New mystery bug
My wife found this mystery bug on some organic greens yesterday afternoon.
I looked through Google images but couldn’t identify it. My guess is one of the followers of this blog will be able identify it and let me know what I should do with the little guy.
Can anybody help?
Otherwise I guess we’ll have to have a (nick)name the bug contest. 🙂
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Stink bug family> Ouch.
Thanks. -
Harlequin Bug (Stink Bug Family)
Murgantia histrionica (Hahn)
(Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) -
Thanks much! Great job.
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I guess the presence of the bug makes the greens even more “organic.” By its looks, I think you have a Harlequin Bug (a true bug–Order Hemiptera), which falls in the general category of the “stink bugs”, pardon the expression. There are about 250 species in the US. It likes to hang out on and eat the crucifers (is that cabbage it’s on?) but on other plants as well.
Here’s a link: http://www.bonnieplants.com/Default.aspx?tabid=427 Get many more via Google.
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Jim Wright
Stink bug family> Ouch.
Thanks.
deedee burnside
Harlequin Bug (Stink Bug Family)
Murgantia histrionica (Hahn)
(Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
Jim Wright
Thanks much! Great job.
Tom Burr
I guess the presence of the bug makes the greens even more “organic.” By its looks, I think you have a Harlequin Bug (a true bug–Order Hemiptera), which falls in the general category of the “stink bugs”, pardon the expression. There are about 250 species in the US. It likes to hang out on and eat the crucifers (is that cabbage it’s on?) but on other plants as well.
Here’s a link: http://www.bonnieplants.com/Default.aspx?tabid=427 Get many more via Google.