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Pentatomidae sp.
The eggs have hatched! Tiny round bugs clustered together around the empty eggshells. Photo 6 shows the eggs in the morning. They have lost their round pearly look. At sunset when I checked they had all hatched. It seems that in photo 6, the top bug is in the process of emerging.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/177... - fresh eggs, round and looking like red pearls.
Spotted on Feb 10, 2013
Submitted on Feb 10, 2013
17 Comments
@sergio, Thankyou, I think the eggs are very beautiful. They looked like red pearls in the sunlight.
This is the most recent photo. This was the last time I saw them, day 6 and they had completely changed their shape and colour.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/175...
Thought they might be a shield bugs, but was puzzled by the stick-like protrubence from the rear...
Pamsai, they look like stink bugs for me, but I am not sure. Do you have more recent photos?
thanks Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman. The quest for an ID continues. They have now totally transformed! In the matter of a day...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/...
thanks for your interest...
thanks Yuko ans C.Sydes for the comments
pamsai, sorry about your bean plant... : ( for what I read, it would be history soon!!??
But thank you so much for the series I truly enjoyed it and in my eyes it was worth a bean plant.. ; )
thanks Maria dB and Yuko for your comments...
@Baron Bodissey. Thanks for setting me straight! I did see a stink bug nearby on the day i saw the bugs. First one I've seen in the garden actually. Maybe that was the parent!
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/178...
Not beetles but true bugs, order Heteroptera. Possibly stink bugs, family Pentatomidae.
Great series!!
I would not worry about the plant, you are seeing the birth of a beetle and we are also.... thank you for sharing. : )
thanks Jolly, Argy Bee and auntnance for your comments. Argy, I;ll do my best to follow at least some of them!
Great series Pamsai
Incredible! Thank you for the update! Now we know that those beautiful red pearls were these beetles. :-) I hope they don't cause any harm to your beans!
Wonderful series!
What a great series, pamsai! I think it would depend on their mouth parts as to whether they are apt to suck the beans dry or gnaw the aphids away.
Fabulous. Now they'll be hard to track.
Anyone know whether these are goodies or badies!? Should I remove them before they suck my beans dry, or will they eat the aphids?
What patience you have Pamsai. Rewarding little ones. Very cute.