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Stink bug on mustard - Bagrada hilaris

Stink bug on mustard - Bagrada hilaris
Nix Nature Center, Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, USA
June 5, 2009
Note that the wing in the foreground is damaged a bit and missing the orange/white marking. This is the first one I've seen at Nix, but have seen many at Peters Canyon Regional Park.

Perhaps this is bad news for the other pentatomids...
...but I have been seeing these guys all over the place here in the canyon. So far, exclusively on Mustard. Is that what yours is on here?

 
Yeah, I think they're poised to take over.
First I saw (mating pair) was at Peters Canyon. That was not quite a year ago. This year, I saw more along the same trail then, a couple months later, in a different spot. This is the first I saw outside Peters.

I've seen nymphs on plants other than mustard, but mustard is indeed the hot tip for these. Typically, they're solitary or paired on a single strand, as opposed to a, uh, clump of mustard.

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