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ahamacav
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 Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:33 pm
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| Lobo wrote: | | Quote: | | Anyone know what the scientific name is of a stinkbug? A black one like ... |
Google is a great earch engine and they have an excellent image search featrure.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r4300311.html
The conchuela is a large black stink bug with a reddish marginal border and a reddish spot in the middle of the back.
Conchuela: Chlorochroa ligata
Others:
Consperse stink bug: Euschistus conspersus
Redshouldered plant bug: Thyanta pallidovirens |
Nope. Been through that loop a few times.
Looks like this:
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I've seen these things all over the place in so cal since I was a kid. Everyone I know calls them stink bugs. Stick their tiny little pointer ends up in the air when you bother them. Looks stupid. I heard they stink up pretty good if you get radical with them, but never tried it because I figured it was bad medicine or joo-joo to say the least. Why mess with a bug that can't fight back? -Not like a tortoise that can attack or rush you.
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deathvalleydan
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:50 am
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That looks like the ones who roam the sand dunes early in the morning. They are different from your standard issue stink bug, mainly differenciated by the fact this fellow has ridges running down his back and appears to be slightly fuzzy, where a stinkbug has a black, smooth, shiny thorax...
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Lobo
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:59 am
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might try searching using: stink bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
Your local University Extension Pest Management office, should be able to ID it for you. |
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:36 am
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The beetles in the Dunes at White Sands, NM are called Dung Beetles. Think they are quite different than those common Stink Bugs. Of course that is an uneducated guess..
Here is a tidbit:
Interesting Behaviors of Darkling Beetles:
When disturbed, some beetles (genus Eleodes)assume a defensive posture in which they stand on their head and release chemicals from a scent gland in the rear that produces noxious odors and turns skin brown. |
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deathvalleydan
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Ant and bee (actual subject that you can't see) enjoying a nice flower in Mojave Preserve last week....
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:52 pm
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Fun shot - I guess I can see the bee's wing in there, can't I?
Are those cactus spines in the background? |
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deathvalleydan
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Yup, you can see part of the bee. That flower is some type of cholla flower and was blooming at around 5000 feet elevation in Mojave Preserve on Cima dome. Here is a different view:
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Scott
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| Wow - cholla central up there |
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RL
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:36 pm
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We visited MP in Late Feb/early March this year and it was relly neat up there. I love the undisturbed catus fields. I sure would like to see those Cholla in bloom! Nice shots Dan...
Did you trek up Macedonia Canyon? That is the canyon we wheeled up and down. Went through the burn area up there.. |
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deathvalleydan
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Yup that was one of the road we did last week. It's amazing how fast things have grown back, and the flowers at the higher elevations. Looking at the amount of regrowth in some areas, I would have guessed the fire to be at least three years old.
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| deathvalleydan wrote: | That looks like the ones who roam the sand dunes early in the morning. They are different from your standard issue stink bug, mainly differenciated by the fact this fellow has ridges running down his back and appears to be slightly fuzzy, where a stinkbug has a black, smooth, shiny thorax...
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Yeah, that's where I got that shot. It's kinda fuzzy, but its the first one I pulled up. It does look close to a Darkling Beetle.
http://www.randallmuseum.org/animal.cfm?a=2
Still looking for the scientific name for the common-shiny california style standard issue stinkbug that you described.
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 8:04 pm
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| ahamacav wrote: | | Still looking for the scientific name for the common-shiny california style standard issue stinkbug that you described. |
You talking about the Pinacate Beetle (Eleodes spp.)?
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| Dezdan wrote: | | ahamacav wrote: | | Still looking for the scientific name for the common-shiny california style standard issue stinkbug that you described. |
You talking about the Pinacate Beetle (Eleodes spp.)? |
That's really, really close, if not it. Thanks!
http://www.nps.gov/tont/nature/pinacate.htm
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:21 pm
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| That is a cool Lizard! |
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| ahamacav wrote: | | I'm sticking with lizards that I have no idea what they are. |
If you photographed this lizard anywhere but in the San Diego County area, I am fairly certain that your photo is of a Sonoran Spotted Whiptail (Cnemidophorus sonorae). If it was photographed in the San Diego County area, there is a very slight possibility it is the rare Belding's Orange-throated Whiptail (Aspidoscelis hyperythra beldingi) - though I doubt it.
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