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Red & Black Awesome lookin' beetle? - Pyrrhocoris apterus
Copyright © 2011 Robert Mortensen

Red & Black Awesome lookin' beetle? - Pyrrhocoris apterus
Bountiful Utah - on my back patio, Davis County, Utah, USA
September 5, 2011
Size: appx 1/4 inch
My first impression was that it was somehow related to Box Elder Bugs. Similar red eyes, antennae, and black and red coloration, but the pattern is so different than what I am used to seeing.
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Contributed by Robert Mortensen on 5 September, 2011 - 10:02pm
Last updated 7 September, 2011 - 10:07am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 7 September, 2011 - 10:07am login or register to post comments

Firebug?
Looks like Utah is only data point here in BugGuide!

… Yurika Alexander, 5 September, 2011 - 10:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Pyrrhocoris apterus?
Today, 8/30/2014, in San Diego CA on Fiesta Island in Mission Bay Park. Very little vegetation. Seem to be eating young tumbleweed (Russian thistle, I think).

Pyrrhocoris apterus?





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Firebug - Pyrrhocoris apterus
Aha! Thanks. Now I know.
… Robert Mortensen, 5 September, 2011 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

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