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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Miroidea » Plant Bugs (Miridae) » Bryocorinae » Dicyphini » Dicyphus » Dicyphus famelicus
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Blackberry bug - Dicyphus famelicus
Copyright © 2010 Charley Eiseman

Blackberry bug - Dicyphus famelicus
Brimfield State Forest, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
April 26, 2010
Saw at least three of these on the same blackberry plant. This species has perfected the hide-on-the-other-side-of-the-leaf-before-Charley-can-take-a-picture trick.

When I glimpsed the first one, I had the impression that it was sucking on this:

After reading on the guide page that they feed on aphids as well as blackberry foliage, this seems plausible.

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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 27 April, 2010 - 9:24pm
Last updated 30 April, 2010 - 9:58pm

Moved
Moved from True Bugs.
… WonGun Kim, 27 April, 2010 - 11:13pm login or register to post comments

Plant bug.
Clearly in the Miridae, but after that I'm stumped, too!
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 April, 2010 - 9:46pm login or register to post comments

 
After browsing Miridae...
I'm thinking Dicyphus.
… Charley Eiseman, 27 April, 2010 - 9:54pm login or register to post comments

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