red bugs under my cedar by WhiteStag
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Description
These little red bugs actually appear all over the property, and they range in size from hardly even a milimeter, to a few millimeters long, the black patterning to come begins to emerge as they grow larger ... as you'll see below, we are wending our way toward a species identification, and I now expect it will be determined these are immature box elder bugs.
Comments (7)
oscilis
Great macro, horrible bug!
Digimon
Wierd! Gross! Cool!
WhiteStag
These guys live all over the place here, in the gravel, under the grass, in the hedges, Everywhere, and I never knowingly even noticed their existence before now ... they seem to start small and develop more shape and pattern as they increase in size ~ no idea what specie, and so to 'get real' I would need a staff entomologist! (not to mention a staff botanist, biologist, etc) ... just because I have the new lenses in, and start looking for small size subjects, and I always had an eye for detail but oh my God - the stuff ya start to see, there are several species of just spiders at least on the backyard walls of my house, I've noted many an odd or lovely spider before but clearly I had no idea how many live under my own toes and I never saw them before ... it's another whole world we never knew, at each layer of magniication inward, IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE, seriously right in your own yard!
Enmos
First of all, stunning macro work here !! Superb !!! :o) And, its a member of the 'True Bugs' (Hemiptera). Im pretty sure its an assasinbug... maybe an immature one :o)
erskogly
You probably won't even have to go outside to find several species of spider (not to mention other bugs :) Very nice macro! (... and a strange strange bug)
WhiteStag
Thanks Enmos ! ~ with that lead, I did some snooping ... it didn't fit at all for any age of assassin bug: I am now decently convinced these are immature box elder bugs. Very common around here - esp. if a great load of them hatch in your lap, okay in your yard - and yet exciting and new when we look so much closer and discover what things really are and how they change.
WhiteStag
(One house I was involved with had a wooden floor in the basement, which was rotting, and you didn't need to go outside that basement to find new things ~ there was one spider even gave ME the willies, and a horrified fascination, it's color and texture something Lovecraft actually COULD describe well; it totally reminded me of the take on how to depict a vampire in the Herzog color remake of 'Nosferatu"; centipedes tend to be at the top of their food chain, but THESE guys were actually catching centipedes on their webs and eating them for a living! Of course the wood floor had to be removed, and I wondered how many species of fungus mold insect and arachnid and whatever others were displaced when that happened.)