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Thread: Aphid?

  1. 08-01-2007, 08:37 PM #1
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    Aphid?





    how about this one?

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    Re: Aphid?

    Hmm.. not like any aphids I have ever seen. You usually find aphids in large numbers (and on my rose bushes dangit! lol) and they are all green and almost translucent from the ones I have seen.

    The other one, I have seen those a lot and I always just thought they were some sort of moth.

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    Re: Aphid?

    the first is a assassin bug sp. of sort I do believe
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    Re: Aphid?

    Quote Originally Posted by paulnj
    the first is a assassin bug sp. of sort I do believe
    thats what my first thought was to, but its mouth looks funny for one.
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    Re: Aphid?

    http://tolweb.org/Reduviidae/10862
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    Re: Aphid?

    yeah that looks like it... still doesn't look like it has a sucking mouthpart like the piciture on the right does though.
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    Re: Aphid?

    Well it's an "ambush bug" and I do believe it's a Phymata erosa
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    Re: Aphid?

    After seeing that linked picture, I too would say shots 1&2 are of an assassin bug. First capture for me. Thanks for the input guys.
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