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mikako.num

2 weeks ago from Metatext • •

mikako.num
2 weeks ago from Metatext • •

Your species is in large numbers this year.
I've never thought of you as stinky and most of all I love the hexagonal shape of your body.

#Brownmarmoratedstinkbug #kusagikamemushi #insects #hexagon #japan

This is a picture of a sheild bug on a flower bud.
Their hexagonal bodies are wrapped in a brown gradient with small white spots on the head.
Their two flexible antennae are gently curved and point outward from their bodies. The slight golden color in their touch is very nice.
They don't give off that famous stinky smell unless they are attacked by others.

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Clara Listensprechen

in reply to mikako.num • 2 weeks ago •

They don't get stinky until you touch 'em, and BTW that's a highly poisonous plant it's perched on. Poison Hemlock.
I do have to control those bugs because they prey on my butterfly caterpillars.

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mikako.num

in reply to Clara Listensprechen • 2 weeks ago from Metatext • •

@claralistensprechen3rd

Oh, thanks for sharing that!
I didn't know that. Around here, it is called "wild carrot〜nora-ninjin" and is often seen.
It is hard to realize that those pretty, fluffy white flowers are poisonous.

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Well, it's not to be confused with Wild Carrot, aka Queen Anne's Lace, although Eastern Black Swallowtails will. It does have another name--Cow Parsley--but a cow would die if it ate it. Wild Carrot doesn't produce that kind of seed, which will fiercely stick to your clothes. I've done battle with that stuff on an ongoing basis so I know it back'ards & forewards.
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