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Stink Bug, Twice-Stabbed

Scientific Name: Cosmopepla lintneriana

Family: Pentatomidae

Native Range: North America, Pennsylvania*

Size: Length: 4.7-6.5 mm (0.19 – 0.26 in)*

Active: Early spring – fall; adults overwinter in leaf litter.*

Color and Appearance: Black stink bug shape, with red detailing on carapace.

August 9, 2020: I watched this twice-stabbed stink bug couple for several minutes as they climbed up an anise hyssop stalk, reached the top, turned and headed back down, all the while clasped in each other’s embrace. It was astonishingly acrobatic.

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Sharpshooter Bug

Tribe: Proconiini 

Family: Cicadellidae

Native Range: Worldwide, Pennsylvania*

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According to Wikipedia, both adults and nymphs insert their mouths into plant tissue and suck large quanties of sap out. They filter out the trace nutrients and vigorously shoot the remaining liquid out of their bodies, earning the group name of “sharpshooter”.*

*From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpshooter_(insect))

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Stink Bug, Brown

Scientific Name: Euschistus servus

Family: Pentatomidae Pentatomidae.

Native Range: North America, Pennsylvania*

Size: Length:11 – 15 mm (0.43 – 0.59 in)*

Active: May – November*

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*From BugGuide.net (https://bugguide.net/node/view/160209)

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Small Milkweed Bug

Scientific Name: Lygaeus kalmii

Family: Lygaeidae

Native Range: Northern ranges of North America

Size: *

Active: Adults over-winter. Females become active in spring.*

Color and Appearance: Black with red markings

*From Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygaeus_kalmii

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Jagged Ambush Bug

Scientific Name: Phymata fasciata

Family: Reduviidae (Assassin Bugs)

Native Range: North and Central America (Wikipedia)

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Color and Appearance: Black with golden hairs*

*From Heather Holm, Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe and Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants. Minetonka: Pollination Press, LLC, 2014., p. 267.