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Small, round black bug with what looks like a shield on its back.
Came in on huckleberries.
Ok...then it's the very young nymph of a Dock Bug...I wasn't sure earlier, since the juvenile nymphs look different - I only had one picture seen that came close to this one. But if it's most likely a nymph of the other adults you shot, then it's a Dock Bug.
Here is the green one: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/739...
and the brown one: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/739...
Did you take shots from the two species (even in adult state)?
Don't know that much about American bugs, but it still looks like a Forest Bug to me, though the European nymphs look different - but there are some similarities.
haha nothing but forest. It's relatively old growth Sitka spruce along with 60-year-old western hemlock, Douglas fir, vine maple, big leaf maple, red alder, red cedar, salmonberry and so on.
not really generally, as far as I know.
This one appears to be some forest bug - they're mostly colored in camouflage/dark colors - is there forest around?
Thanks; that's pretty much what I was thinking. I've found two different species of shield bug on those berries; I wonder if this matches one of them or is an entirely different species. Do the colors of the nymph generally match the adult?
Spotted on Sep 24, 2011
Submitted on Oct 2, 2011
