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true bug - Menecles insertus
Copyright © 2006 Jonathan Burishkin

true bug - Menecles insertus
Collegedale, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA
May 17, 2006
Found in daytime.
Contributed by Jonathan Burishkin on 11 September, 2006 - 10:53am
Last updated 17 October, 2006 - 4:20pm

Moved
Moved from Stink Bugs.
… Eric R. Eaton, 17 October, 2006 - 4:20pm

Stink bug nymph
of some sort, but I don't know what kind.
… Ashley Bradford, 11 September, 2006 - 10:54am

 
Agreed.
This could be a nymph of Menecles insertus, the way the head is sunk into the thorax like this.
… Eric R. Eaton, 11 September, 2006 - 2:06pm

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