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Bug in my garden: Shield Bug (aka Stinkbug)

October 8th, 2007 · Comments Off

Ain’t he cute? This is a Shield Bug, also known as the Stinkbug. After perusing several stinkbug pages, I think this is a Raphigaster nebulosa, for you Latin nuts. They’re called stinkbugs because they have a gland in their thorax that emits, you guessed it, foul-smelling liquid. They also have a piercing mouthpart that pokes [...]

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Bug in my garden: Shield Bug (aka Stinkbug)

October 8th, 2007 · Comments Off

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