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#miridae — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Just now I was in the garden, waiting for the laundry to finish, minding my own business and not looking for any bugs at all, when a plant bug (Miridae) (I think, anyway) dropped out of the sky and landed on the table next to me. Two small flies were feeding on it.

    Sometimes #FridayFlyDay comes to you, I guess.

    #bugstodon #insects #flies #bugs #Diptera #Hemiptera #Heteroptera #Miridae

  2. European Tarnished Plant Bug. Lygus rugulipennis Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 Celakovice-Jirina, Czech Republic 10/10/2010 f/7/1 1/160 iso: 400 #Hemiptera #Nugs #miridae #miridbugs #plantBugs #insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

  3. I think this is a member of the family Miridae. E.g. plant bugs. Like all true bugs, these have sucking mouth parts, this one was found in Central Park in late May.

    #miridae #plantbugs #truebugs #insects #bugs #entomology #centralpark #nycparks #canonphotography #luminarneo #macro #ultramacro

  4. #MiteMonday: It's crowded in the garden during Peak Anystid! Yesterday I saw a whirligig mite (family Anystidae) eating a small plant bug (family Miridae) when a second mite came along and had a bite. The first mite stopped feeding, but did keep one foot on the bug, as if to call dibs. It wasn't long before a third mite happened upon the kill and also helped itself to the bug.

    #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #MiteBehaviour #arachnids #mites #Acari #Anystidae #bugs #insects #Miridae