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Stink bugs4/3/2023 1960. ACydnidae of the Western Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 111:337-60. Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis.įroeschner, R. Heteroptera or True Bugs of Eastern North America, with Special Refence to the Faunas of Indiana and Florida. They can survive in warm ponds or polluted waters low in oxygen. Water scorpions are true bugs in the Family Nepidae that have long breathing tubes on their rear ends, which enables them to breathe air while still under water. They detect the ripples of other insects on the water and run quickly to capture and kill the prey. More familiar is the group of aquatic bugs known as Water Striders, which move on the water surface with their "feet" barely touching the surface. Bugs of the Family Notonectidae are known as Water Boatmen, and are capable predators of other insects on the water surface. Although sound making in insects is generally restricted to katydids and their relatives, and cicadas, some Assassin Bugs can produce hissing sounds by rasping their feeding tube against the underside of their body. These colors are a warning to vertebrate predators that the bug is poisonous, with milkweed plant toxins. The Common Milkweed Bug has bright orange and black colors, and feeds on milkweed plants. This disagreeable odor turns away predators, but has no staining effect to humans. Some bugs are capable of producing a foulsmelling chemical from glands in the sides of their bodies, especially the group known as Stink Bugs. An examination of commercial "turtle food" may reveal that it is composed largely of small water bugs. Certain water bugs are used to give particular flavors to Chinese food, and are even imported into California for this purpose. Some true bugs have been utilized as food for both humans and pets. A group of assassin bugs in the tropics, known as Conenose bugs, transmit the serious human Chagas Disease, which sometimes causes death. The notorious bed bug is generally uncommon in current households, but their close relatives often live in the nests of bats and birds. A few true bugs are pests or disease carriers. A variety of insects, including caterpillars and cockroaches, often fall prey to assassin bugs. Plants generally show little effect of true bug feeding, unless the bugs are very abundant. The hypodermic-needle-like mouthparts enable true bugs to extract body fluids from plants and animals, including humans. Bugs undergo incomplete metamorphosis, with their young looking much like adults, but without wings. True bugs have hypodermic-needle-like mouthparts that allow them to extract subsurface fluids from plants and animals. These wing covers are held over the back and often partly folded. The True Bugs are insects that have two pairs of wings, the front or outer pair of each divided into a leathery basal part and a membranous apical part. There are approximately 40,000 described species of true bugs in the world, and over 3,800 in the United States. True Bugs belong in the insect Order Heteroptera. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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