3 June 26

Buglets On The March

A photograph of seven small red and black insects on a textured white surface. Pica this morning spotted about sixty or so small creatures in formation on the wall of our garden shed. When she moved her hand towards them, they would retreat away a few millimeters. We at first thought these were spiders but looking closely at the photographs they have six legs, not eight. Their body length is about 2 millimeters long.

I ran this photograph through a number of visual identification apps without a great deal of luck, but did come up with some possibilities. They appear to be early instar nymphs of some sort of bug, possibly Rediviidae (assassin bugs) or Rophalidae (e.g. boxelder bugs). Insects are tough to identify, immature insects even tougher.

Posted by at 03:54 PM in Nature and Place | Link

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