Bountiful Bugs - # - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography

True Bugs

The insect order Hemiptera is an abundant and diverse assemblage that includes hoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects, and others. These insects have beak-like mouthparts specialized for piercing/sucking.

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Thasus acutangulus nymph. Mexico.

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Thasus neocalifornicus Giant Mesquite Bug, adult. Arizona, USA.

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Portrait of a Thasus acutangulus nymph. The bright colors advertise this bug's distastefulness. Mexico.

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Belostoma sp. giant water bug.

Lake Glendale, Illinois, USA

The smoke tree sharpshooter (Homalodisca lacerta) is a colorful plant-feeding insect about 1cm long. Arizona, USA.

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Milkweed aphids (Aphis nerii) cluster around plant veins. Kansas, USA.

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This waxy tangle is called a lerp, made by exudates of the eucalyptus lerp psyllid (Glycaspis).

Victoria, Australia

A eucalyptus lerp psyllid (Glycaspis) is revealed by removing its protective waxy tent.

Victoria, Australia

Assassin bugs are sit-and-wait predators. This Zelus tetracanthus arrived at a blacklight insect trap and intercepted incoming prey, in this case a male trap-jaw ant. Arizona, USA.

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Thasus acutangulus nymph. Mexico.

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Canon EOS 20D |

More details: exif |

Original size: 3504x2332 |

Current: 800x533 |

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Keywords: bugs nature insect insects nymph mesquite hemiptera ecology aposomatic entomology thasus coreidae

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