I’m quite fond of scarlet and turquoise together, and Edessa rufomarginata displays them both in the form of a gorgeous stinkbug!
seen in Costa Rica, alongside an equally beautiful juvenile of the same species. they are quite common in this habitat but no less pretty for it!
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i'm thinking about bugs
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'brown' insects are criminally overlooked, but are some of the most aesthetically pleasing creatures out there.
No common name (Poecilometis histricus).
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to make up for all the recent rambling on here, please accept this preposterously tiny pentatomoid nymph
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Man-faced Stink Bug (Catacanthus incarnatus), family Pentatomidae, found across much of South, SE, and East Asia
photograph by @fendercaptureartwork
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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
What's that smell? Why, it's the brown marmorated stink bug! These insects are famous for their distinctive protection against predators; when threatened, they emit a foul odor. What this odor smells like varies from person to person-- comparisons have been made to cilantro, pepper, fermenting apples, sulfur, skunks, or burnt tires. A few people can't even smell stink bugs at all!
(Image: A brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) by Lyle J. Buss)
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One of my favourite bug pics I’ve ever taken. Brown marmorated stinkbug shortly after molting! It’s like candy cane!!!
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A man-faced stinkbug (Catacanthus incarnatus) in the Borneo rainforest
by 石虎
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a striped shield bug, Graphosoma italicum. proof that being extremely common doesn't make a bug any less whimsical especially when it looks like candy
featuring a photobombing ant that i literally only noticed while posting this despite the photo itself being like a week old by now
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[PHOTO TAKEN: NOVEMBER 25TH, 2023 | Image ID: A photo of two brown shield bugs walking across blue fabric with white stars /End IDs.]
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Bug of the Day
Cute little stink bug, Banasa dimidiata, on a Viburnum leaf in my yard.
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a new Peocilometis species for me, the handsome P. calidus!
my first assumption when seeing this guy was that they were P. apicalis, but thankfully there are much more knowledgable folks on iNaturalist who can ID stink bugs for me :')
No common name (Poecilometis calidus).
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mystery eggs on this shield bug's hemilytra
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Blue shield Bug (Zicrona caerulea), family Pentatomidae, Pahang, Malaysia
photograph by Hazilawati Abdul Aziz
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Shield bug, probably genus Brochymena or one of the rough stink bugs
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