#coreid

[billionneuronscurious]

A hemipteran bug sitting on Celosia sp. (Cockscomb) as it rains.

[scottpartridge]

Leaf-Footed Bug, Anisoscelis flavolineata

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

Does it count as work if I am coloring bugs? #jobperks #sometimespeoplebringmestuff 

[drhoz]

Mictis profana, the Crusader Bug

[drhoz]

#80 - Crusader Bug

Mictis profana - A large Coreid stinkbug, known to feed on native and introduced plants such as eucalypts, wattles, Orchard Trees (Citrus among others) and cultivated crops including grape, pawpaw, cowpea, tomato, beans, Acacia and green gram. Although a minor pest of Citrus and Wattles they are considered a helpful biological control of the highly invasive Sensitive Plant, Mimosa pigra.