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Are these squash bugs? - Anasa tristis
Copyright © 2009 Beatriz Moisset

Are these squash bugs? - Anasa tristis
Pennypack farm, Horsham, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 8, 2009
Size: +/- 1mm each
Many clusters of eggs on the same plants as both on the under and upper side of leaves of squash plants.

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Are these squash bugs? - Anasa tristis Are these squash bugs? - Anasa tristis
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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 8 August, 2009 - 12:01pm
Last updated 28 March, 2019 - 12:16pm

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… Beatriz Moisset, 8 August, 2009 - 7:08pm login or register to post comments

Yes - Anasa tristis
I photographed these at egg hatch:


The paler, more pearlescent orange eggs were laid more recently. They get darker red and more transparent until they hatch - the recently-exited eggs are as beautiful as rubies. The bugs themselves, and what they do to the plants, not so much...
… Abigail Parker, 8 August, 2009 - 4:32pm login or register to post comments

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