Category Archives: Hemiptera

True bugs, hoppers, aphids, whiteflies, & scale insects. Largest order of Exopterygota. Fossil record from Lower Permian to Recent. Predominantly plant feeding insects, some predaceous or parasitic.

Stink Bugs on Soybean in Argentina

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

Despite the natural history and taxonomic focus on beetles and other insects I have adopted for this blog, I am by day an agricultural research entomologist.  For the past 15 years soybean entomology has been my focus, and there is no better … Continue reading →

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Bichos Argentinos #12 – Lace Bugs

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

Shortly after entering La Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur (Buenos Aires, Argentina) during my early March visit, I noticed a fairly large patch of solanaceous-looking shrubs.  Even from a distance, I could see patterns of white stippling on the foliage immediately identifiable as signs of lace bugs, true … Continue reading →

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“They’re baaaaack!”

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

The recent run of seemingly interminable rains and HF4 tornadoes may have delayed the Annual-Birthday-First-Bug-Collecting-Trip-of-the-Year™, but it could not cancel it.  On Thursday this week, for the first time since the same time last week, a strange ball of hot gas appeared … Continue reading →

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Bichos Argentinos #9 – Membracido

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

This treehopper that I photographed at La Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur strongly resembles our North American species of Campylenchia due to the brown elytra and lack of any yellow markings on the pronotal crest.  However, the rounded lower margin of the frons (more apparent in … Continue reading →

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Bichos Argentinos #5 – Cyrtocoris egeris

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

Despite its obvious membership in the order Hemiptera, I knew the insect featured in ID Challenge #7 would be a difficult subject to identify.  This bizarre bug is Cyrtocoris egeris, a member of the small pentatmoid family Cytocoridae (congratulations to HBG Dave, who was … Continue reading →

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Brazil Bugs #16 – Outro Percevejo

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

Another stink bug (family Pentatomidae) from my recent travels to South America, but this one from southeastern Brazil rather than Argentina.  Although the white spot at the apex of the scutellum is a common theme across the family, the jet … Continue reading →

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Bichos Argentinos #4 – Balancing Act

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

I encountered this adult Nezara viridula (southern green stink bug) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in a soybean field in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.  I liked the way it balanced itself on the leaf on which it was sitting to keep its body level. Copyright © Ted … Continue reading →

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Brazil Bugs #15 – Formiga-membracídeos mutualismo

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Ted C. MacRae

Of the several insect groups that I most wanted to see and photograph during my trip to Brazil a few weeks ago, treehoppers were near the top of the list.  To say that treehoppers are diverse in the Neotropics is … Continue reading →

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