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Plautia crossota
Plautia crossota (Dallas, 1951), called the Brown-winged Stink Bug, of family Pentatomidae (Leach, 1815). Another batch of eggs spotted on a leaf of a Dwarf Poinciana plant, Caesalpinia pulcherrima. The 1st batch of eggs spotted previously: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/194.... The adults copulate for 1-3 days and the female lays one batch of eggs 2-4 days after copulation. Each female may lay 2 or 3 batches of eggs but recopulates before each laying. Adult spottings: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/192..., http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/193.... 3rd/4th instar nymph: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/148.... 5th instar spottings: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/194..., http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/194....
Backyard.
Reference: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...
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