Backyard Zoology · 4 January 2018
2018-01-04T19:43:11+11:00
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Some girls get flowers. I get husby calling me over and presenting me, with a extravagant wave of the arm, bugs! Gorgeous, metallic, clustered harlequin bugs. 

The large orange bugs are the adult females and the smaller metallic blue ones are nymphs. These little guys pierce the stem of plants and feed off of the sap. The nymphs had pretty much all dispersed when we went back to look today so I'll just be here waiting for actual flowers 😂🙌

Cotton Harlequin Bug
Sandon Point

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