tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024382604105375596.post6694273736747977067..comments2024-03-06T03:31:26.015-07:00Comments on The Home Bug Garden: Friday Bug: Cosmopepla and StachysHomeBugGardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845748276844681280noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024382604105375596.post-72760453323330792852012-01-27T17:43:07.427-07:002012-01-27T17:43:07.427-07:00Yeah, used to think of bugs as predators and phloe...Yeah, used to think of bugs as predators and phloem/xylem feeders too, but many are seed predators. Even big ones like Western Conifer Seed Bug, Leptoglossus occidentals Heideman. Then so are a lot of smaller bugs, especially in the Lygaeoidea including my favourite family Rhyparochromidae - Dirt-colored Seed Bugs. A lot of carabid beetles eat seeds too. Then, of course, so do we.HomeBugGardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11845748276844681280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024382604105375596.post-40936809679018971402012-01-27T17:32:36.577-07:002012-01-27T17:32:36.577-07:00I have often seen these bugts in the seed heads of...I have often seen these bugts in the seed heads of of <em>Pulsatilla</em> spp. and wondered what they are doing there. I somehow never thought that the piercing mouthpars of true bugs would be very good at eating seeds -- I imagined juicier food sources where more likely.Adrianhttp://bugs.adrianthysse.com/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024382604105375596.post-62568916556851364772012-01-27T17:14:33.396-07:002012-01-27T17:14:33.396-07:00BugGuide has images from Washington, Iowa, Pennsyl...BugGuide has images from Washington, Iowa, Pennsylvannia, New York, New Hampshire, and Texas. I found a web page calling it the most common stinkbug outside Chicago http://www.cirrusimage.com/bugs_stink_cosmopepla_lintneriana.htm<br /><br />Bev Wigney from Ontario - great stinkbug gallery http://www.pbase.com/crocodile/stink_bugs&page=all - has it.<br /><br />Dave's Garden (no relation) reports it from:<br /><br />Deer, Arkansas; Cary, Illinois; Lombard, Illinois; Rock Falls, Illinois; Millbury, Massachusetts; Newfoundland and Labrador; Greensboro, North Carolina; Crossville, Tennessee; Pittman Center, Tennessee<br /><br />Other sites from Louisville, KY; Quebec, etc. But if you look at this distribution map, it does look like they are avoiding the southeast:<br /><br />http://www.globalspecies.org/ntaxa/2208918HomeBugGardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11845748276844681280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3024382604105375596.post-53614298810631900672012-01-27T16:04:53.781-07:002012-01-27T16:04:53.781-07:00McDonald asserts "widespread throughout North...McDonald asserts "widespread throughout North America and Mexico," but I can't recall ever seeing this thing - probably too fixated on beetles.<br /><br />Berlioz will eat anything!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com