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Small Milkweed Bug

Lygaeus kalmii

Description:

Dark grey to black with broad orange or red band on forewing, forming an "X" shape that doesn't quite meet in the middle; head black with dull red spot on top, sometimes extending down onto face; pronotum with red transverse band, bordered anteriorly by two black spots & posteriorly by two black semicircular lobes; membranous portion of forewing all black in eastern specimens.

Habitat:

Milkweed patch next to a marsh.


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Lat: 45.96, Long: -76.16

Spotted on Aug 5, 2012
Submitted on Aug 8, 2012

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