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Scantius Aegyptius
Tiny little red insects with black markings on their backs. I found them all down our street on the sidewalk; at the end of the street they were everywhere.
Spotted on Oct 4, 2012
Submitted on Oct 4, 2012
7 Comments
Wow!! Who would have ever thought!
Huh, that's a pretty interesting read; it looks like they are spreading more throughout California as the distribution says it goes as far as Los Angeles County and I live in Ventura County. Thanks for the help
Hey Andrew the pics are so much better now....I think it may be this relatively new species....I am attaching a link to an article in case you want to know more about them :)
http://cisr.ucr.edu/red_bug.html
Sorry about the small photos, I cropped them a bit for a better close up. They do look exactly like Red Bugs. I have seen a few around my house but never the amount that I saw today.
I am not totally sure because of the small image but this could be a Red Bug / Scantius aegyptius a Mediterranean native and first found in California in 2009.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/299939
Yeah, I'll crop them a bit. They weren't under any trees, they were all out in the open all along the sidewalk which is about 7 houses long.
Do you think you can cut and crop so that we can see a close up? Could be Box Elder bugs or Red Shouldered Bugs. Do you know what kind of tree it was under?