Question:
what is this small red bug? pictures attached...?
LuLu
2008-02-24 11:29:23 UTC
they are very small (about 1.5mm) with a bulbous, shiny red body, 6 legs, black head and antennas. i found them on my front porch on my avocado seed that was sitting in a glass of water in the sun. at first i thought they were baby ladybugs so i moved the seed out of the water and onto a plant so they wouldn't drown, but later found that baby ladybugs have the black spots just like adults.....so what are these?!!?

i know they are not mites, which is the only "small red bug" i can find on the internet. i have searched and searched and have found nothing on what seems to be a really simple bug!

i've attached a few pictures i took this morning. please enlarge them for a better view!!

http://s248.photobucket.com/albums/gg188/lulumoomoo/

thanks in advance!
lulu
Ten answers:
ricecat
2008-02-25 17:00:37 UTC
We can accurately give you a general identification, but we are bound

and determined to be more specific. These are newly hatched

Hemipterans, True Bugs. We thought they looked like Stink Bugs, but

finding them on an avocado pit is puzzling unless the female stink bug

just laid her eggs on its surface not considering it as a food source.

We did find a very similar image on BugGuide, also from Texas, that is

just identified as a nymphal Hemipteran herd, but it is suspected that

they are Stink Bugs, family Pentatomidae. BugGuide had another image

from Virginia posted with the following comment by Eric Eaton: "They

often stay together to re-inforce their warning colors of red and

black. After the next molt they will disperse a bit." Another similar

image on BugGuide from California is just listed as True Bugs as is

one from Alabama. Another virtually identical image on BugGuide is

listed as a not yet identified stink bug nymph.
?
2016-10-31 05:39:55 UTC
Red Bug Pictures
velia
2016-04-16 18:51:36 UTC
If you just purchased a residence and you have no budget for a skilled landscaper you just come to the appropriate place https://tr.im/szxjT so that you learn how to deal with landscaping even if is your very first encounter since is always a very first for everything.

Ideas4landscaping is a digital downloadable assortment of 300 phase-by-phase guides, themes and video tutorials and involves above 7250 large resolution pictures for those individuals who are looking for inspiration and concepts to enhance their landscaping demands. The package comes as a Pc CD ROM as well.

Full with images and simple diagrams, this program will make you seem to be like an expert in this world of landscaping in front of your pals and family members.
2016-12-15 12:50:48 UTC
A) It´s a graveyard. it may choose to be haunted. The shadows at night are the tormented spirits of the earthbound ineffective. The cat is basically a certainly manifestation of an Ankou, the jailer of the ineffective. B) It´s a graveyard. human beings bypass there each often times, and that i wager that youthful ones will bypass there at night. The cat is probably the two a client or a completely graveyard dweller. sounds like a appropriate place for a cat to be.
Green Tea
2015-08-22 10:57:45 UTC
black-and-red seed bug, Melacoryphus lateralis
Nicki
2008-02-24 11:37:27 UTC
Well all I can say is they look a little bit like aisian beetles. asian beetles are a lot like ladybugs, but without the dots.
not u again
2008-02-24 11:52:58 UTC
which ever species they are all you have to do is take a used up dish soap bottle fill it with water then squirt it on the area they are at and they will leave. you don't want to kill them however because they eat aphids which will destroy your plants and garden.
2008-02-24 15:06:50 UTC
yes they are lady bug related but they are called

Cycloneda munda

they are harmless and git rid of lots of little insects you dont know are in your garden.
Captain Howdy
2008-02-24 11:37:32 UTC
I'd have said ladybirds aswell but now i'm just stumped.
The Geezer
2008-02-24 11:46:00 UTC
they are commonly known as ...a red legged whiffle tit


This content was originally posted on Y! Answers, a Q&A website that shut down in 2021.
Loading...