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Just a bug

by Charles Younger

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted April 17, 201044 views2 comments
D200
180mm macro w/extension
ISO 200, f4, 1/500

Charles
Dushore, Pa.

Comments

2 comments
Comment posted by Wayne Jones on April 18, 2010 at 12:20 PM
Nice soft treatment of this bug, Charles. Looks like some kind of Lygaeid -- sort of like a milkweed bug without the central black band.
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Comment posted by Charles Younger on April 18, 2010 at 12:34 PM
Well, they're both true bugs. But I'd say, from looking BugGuide.net, it was probably a plant bug (Miridae), and maybe a Lopidea.

Registered on January 15, 2010, 151 Posts, 269 Comments