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Chinavia hilaris
Family: Pentatomidae. Subfamily: Pentatominae. Tribe: Pentatomini. Length: 13-18 mm. Green with narrow yellow edges with pink and green stripe antennae. Exoskeleton is black. Large stink glands underneath thorax as a defense. Adult food: Developing seeds of various crops and can be a pest to vegetation.
Meadow with abundant weeds and plants
See video, but it is a bit long. I think it was a real struggle for the bug to get out of its old exoskeleton.
Spotted on Oct 11, 2013
Submitted on Nov 15, 2013
5 Comments
excellent pics! This helps me id an exoskeleton i found: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/439...
I love to find molting insects. Thanks for your comments.
Wonderful spotting and video!
nice !! video is superb ...
This first pic looks like 2 insects coming out of each other!