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Deep, deep, deep into my archives I found this picture. This is true bug for sure and... that's all :-) I don't know ID, I tried to find it but with no luck. My Collins Field Guide has too few true bugs to ID this one... I like composition in this picture - light bug looks like floating over dark surface of - surprise! - Echinacea. Picture taken in Botanic Garden.
Thanks to Kaszek for ID!
The genus Lygus includes over 40 species of plant-feeding insects in the family Miridae. At one time, nearly 200 species were classified as genus Lygus, but most of those have since been reclassified into new or existing genera. The term lygus bug is used for any member of genus Lygus. The more well-known lygus bugs are those that have agricultural impacts. Some lygus bugs are very serious agricultural pests.
The insects appear as small oval creatures. Adult lygus are approximately 3 mm wide and 6 mm long, colored anything in a range from pale green to reddish brown or black. The bugs can be solid shaded or mottled, and have a distinctive triangle or V-shape on their backs. Adults are capable of flight, and will often thus escape when approached. Nymphs are wingless, and being light green in color, are often mistaken for aphids. However, lygus nymphs have harder shells, are typically more active, gain spots as they age, and lack aphid abdominal tubes.
Lygus bugs are known for their destructive feeding habits - they puncture plant tissues with their piercing mouthparts, and feed by sucking sap. Both the physical injury and the plant's own reaction to the bugs' saliva cause damage to the plant. The females insert their eggs directly into the plant tissues using piercing ovipositors, and the newly emerged nymphs are voracious consumers of plant tissue juices. Signs that a plant has been attacked by lygus bugs include discoloration, deformation of shoots and stems, curling of leaves, and lesions on the plant tissues.
* The tarnished plant bug (Lygus lineolaris) feeds on over half of all commercially-grown crop plants, but favors cotton, alfalfa, beans, stone fruits, and conifer seedlings. This bug can be found across North America, from northern Canada to southern Mexico.
* The western tarnished plant bug (Lygus hesperus) is a very serious pest of cotton, strawberries, and seed crops such as alfalfa. In the state of California alone the bug causes US$30 million in damage to cotton plants each year, and at least US$40 million in losses to the state's strawberry industry.
* The European tarnished plant bug (Lygus rugulipennis) is distributed throughout Europe, where it will feed on over 400 types of crop plant from peach trees to wheat to lettuce.
Some methods of biological pest control have proved useful against lygus bugs. For example, wasps of the genus Peristenus are parasitoids of lygus bugs; an adult wasp will inject an egg into a lygus nymph, and once the egg hatches the wasp's larva will consume the nymph from the inside out. |
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Hola Greg,
Muy bella imagen, me gusta como se ve sobre la flor esa chinche y la bella y rara combinación de colores.
Saludos cordiales
Hernán
Ya, right, the bug looks as it it floating over the OOF flower, Greg.
Going by the super sharpness of the subject, you have found a jewel in your deep deep deep archives!
Thanks for sharing and take care.
Ram
Ciao Grzegorz,
complimenti per questa bella macro!
La messa a fuoco sull'insetto è perfetta. Lo sfondo scuro e omogeneo fa risaltare ancora di più i contorni del soggetto, che sembra veramente fluttuare nell'aria.
Ottima composizione.
Grazie,
Marcello
- Ena
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(2319) - [2008-01-19 1:08]
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Hello Grzegorz
Very good macro!
Excellent details!
Love the BG!
TFS
Regards
Ena
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- Kaszek
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(1127) - [2008-01-19 1:11]
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A nie pamietasz "Nygusa"? Lygus punctatus?
http://www.treknature.com/viewphotos.php?l=3&p=53862
Moim zdaniem to ten sam :)
Fajna fota i w ogole i w szczegole ;)
Kaszek
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- mariki
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- [2008-01-19 1:49]
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Hello Grzegorz,
Very nice composition. Great sharpness and beautiful colours.
Cheers,
Mariki
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- Janice
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- [2008-01-19 2:24]
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Floating on a sea of red and black waves. And good old Echanacea again too Red Greg.
You bug is very clear and sharp, and quite small too.
Well done
Janice
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- joey
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- [2008-01-19 3:21]
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Hi Greg,
very nice image of this Capsid Bug.
Great sharpness and clarity.
I agree the composition is splendid!
Good colours and lighting.
Well done,
Joe
Hello Grzegorz,
a very nice, well composed, very precise and quite unusual bug portrait.
I like the dark blossom, a perfect background for the pale insect. Wonderful subtle colours. Thank you!
My best regards,
Peter
Czesc Grzesiu
Ciekawa fotka. Tylko pluskwiak jest ostry i fajnie wyglada na lekko romytym kwiatku. Podoba mi sie tez ze kadr jest kwadratowy i zamyka okragly kwiat
Pozdrawiam
Krzysiek
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- dejo
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- [2008-02-04 9:16]
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Hello Grzegorz,
beautiful macro! Great focus and composition,
lovely colors captured, nice details,
Dejan
Hola Grzegorz,
Preciosa composición de gran nitidez mostrando los detalles mas interesantes de este chinche que aparece tan destacada con el fondo de la flor. Excelente nota que acompañas. Saludos
José Ramón
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