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Plautia crossota
Plautia crossota (Dallas, 1951), called the Brown-winged Stink Bug, of family Pentatomidae (Leach, 1815). Spotted on a string bean, this is a lighter form of a 5th instar stink bug nymph as compared with a previous spotting of a dark form: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/194.... Adult spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/192.... 3rd/4th instar nymph: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/148....
Backyard.
Reference: http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteropter... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art... http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...
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