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  1. Just as interesting to me was the behaviour of the mite. It kept running around the same square inch or so. (Normally they run around a much larger area and when they run around in a small area it's just a turn or two in a small burst of energy, in the manner of one of those hyperactive dogs so energetic they can't sit still for long.) It really did seem as if it were *looking for the midge*!

    I felt so bad for it I smushed a plant bug nymph (family Miridae) and dropped it by the mite, who immediately took it. (2/2)

    #Mitestodon #mites #MiteBehaviour #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae #Hemiptera #Heteroptera #Miridae

  2. Today's whirligig mite (family Anystidae) menu:

    - a plant bug nymph (family Miridae)
    - another whirligig mite, or an old exoskeleton maybe?
    - a thrips
    -a small midge-like fly of some sort

    Out of sheer curiosity I captured about half a dozen decently sized whirligig mites and put them on the brown-eyed Susan (_Rudbeckia triloba_) plants which are currently covered in large black aphids. (They do not seem to appreciably harm the plants, which will only mature and bloom much later in the year.) I am not sure if they'll even stay on the plant given how erratically they run around, nor if they'll go for the aphids.

    #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #bugstodon #mites #arachnids #insects #thrips #flies #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae #Hemiptera #Heteroptera #Miridae #Thysanoptera #Diptera

  3. The #bug #Lygus #pratensis (#Miridae) is distributed throughout #Eurasia, Africa and North America. In Central Europe they have 1 annual #generation. #Adults and nymphs feed on nectar and various plants in the #herbaceouslayer and prefer warm #habitats. It can cover #longdistances by #flying. According to Y. Zheng et al. (2024), these #flights depend on #temperature and relative #humidity.

    © #StefanFWirth, #Berlin 2025

    Ref
    Y. Zheng et al. (2024)
    doi.org/10.3390/insects15100762

    #Photos
    © SF Wirth

  4. The #bug #Lygus #pratensis (#Miridae) is distributed throughout #Eurasia, Africa and North America. In Central Europe they have 1 annual #generation. #Adults and nymphs feed on nectar and various plants in the #herbaceouslayer and prefer warm #habitats. It can cover #longdistances by #flying. According to Y. Zheng et al. (2024), these #flights depend on #temperature and relative #humidity.

    © #StefanFWirth, #Berlin 2025

    Ref
    Y. Zheng et al. (2024)
    doi.org/10.3390/insects15100762

    #Photos
    © SF Wirth

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. One of our more colorful local plant bugs, Calocoris barberi. This is an aster-feeding insect native to Texas and northern Mexico. #Miridae #Insects

  8. One of our more colorful local plant bugs, Calocoris barberi. This is an aster-feeding insect native to Texas and northern Mexico. #Miridae #Insects

  9. I just love the ways bugs try not to be found. Here's a Phytocoris lichen-mimic plant bug from Texas, if you can see it.

    #Miridae

  10. I just love the ways bugs try not to be found. Here's a Phytocoris lichen-mimic plant bug from Texas, if you can see it.

    #Miridae

  11. A Plant Bug, genus Hyalopeplus, spotted at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park, Singapore on 24 December 2023. A colourful looking insect.

    On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/1 ].

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Insects #PlantBugs #Miridae

  12. A Plant Bug, genus Hyalopeplus, spotted at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park, Singapore on 24 December 2023. A colourful looking insect.

    On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/1 ].

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Insects #PlantBugs #Miridae

  13. Look at the whiskers on this one! My first time seeing this moustachioed miridae.

    Heterotoma planicornis on my hydrangea.

    #photography #MacroPhotography #macro #bugs #insects #miridae #nature #garden #wildlife

  14. Meadow Plant Bug, Leptopterna dolabrata Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/2.8 1/60 iso: 400 6/7/2012 Srbsko, Czech Republic #Miridae #hemiptera #insects #invertebrates #grassBugs #Macro #grasslands

  15. Meadow Plant Bug, Leptopterna dolabrata Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/2.8 1/60 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 6/7/2012 #Hemiptera #leptoderma #miridBugs #miridae #GrassBugs #Insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands

  16. Gothic Plant Bug, Capsodes gothicus Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/ 6.3 1/320 iso: 250 Milovice, Czech Republic 6/16/2023
    8000milo7A23_06_16.jpg
    #bugs #hemiptera #Miridae #MiridBugs #PlantBugs #Insects #invertebrates #Macro #grasslands

  17. Placochilus seladonicuson Field Scabious, Knautia arvense Canon 7D EF 100 2.8 f/5 1/400 iso: 250 Milovice, Czech Republic 6/13/2014 #Hemiptera #miridae #miridBugs #bugs #PlantBugs #grasslands #macro #Insects #invertebrates

  18. Alfalfa Plant Bug, Adelphocoris lineolatus on Tansy, Tanacetum vulgare Canon 7D EFs 60 2.8 f/4.5 1/400 iso: 250 Milovice, Czech Republic 8/8/2019 #hemiptera #miridae #Miridbugs #plantBugs #Insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands #pests

  19. Interestinger and interestinger. This is Trilaccus mimeticus (#Hemiptera, #Miridae), a species only described in 2020 in this paper: dx.doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00

    The paper says, "Trilaccus mimeticus sp. n. is unique amongst Saturniomirini, having sinuate margins and transparent fascia of the corium, giving the mimetic appearance of a wasplike petiole."

    64 records already in #iNaturalist, a few from before the species was named:

    inaturalist.ala.org.au/observa

  20. Interestinger and interestinger. This is Trilaccus mimeticus (#Hemiptera, #Miridae), a species only described in 2020 in this paper: dx.doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-00

    The paper says, "Trilaccus mimeticus sp. n. is unique amongst Saturniomirini, having sinuate margins and transparent fascia of the corium, giving the mimetic appearance of a wasplike petiole."

    64 records already in #iNaturalist, a few from before the species was named:

    inaturalist.ala.org.au/observa

  21. Quick shot from last night. I assumed it was going to be an alysiine braconid. #iNaturalist immediately suggested the same thing, so I don't feel so stupid, but it's clearly #Hemiptera.

    It resembles #Miridae like #Rayieria but the antennal segments all seem off for that.

    Any pointers from #hemipterists out there?

    #entomology #Hemiptera

  22. Quick shot from last night. I assumed it was going to be an alysiine braconid. #iNaturalist immediately suggested the same thing, so I don't feel so stupid, but it's clearly #Hemiptera.

    It resembles #Miridae like #Rayieria but the antennal segments all seem off for that.

    Any pointers from #hemipterists out there?

    #entomology #Hemiptera

  23. European Tarnished Plant Bug. Lygus rugulipennis Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/7.1 1/160 iso: 400 Celakovice-Jirina, Czech Republic 10/10/2010 #Miridae #MiridBugs #Hemiptera #Bugs #Insects #invertebrates #macro #grasslands #pests

  24. Red-spotted Plant Bug, Deraeocoris ruber Canon 7d efs 60 2.8 F/ 4.5 1/320 ISO: 200 Srbsko, Czech Republic 5/1/2019 #Miridae #Hemiptera #MiridBugs #bugs #Insects #invertebrates #Macro #Grasslands

  25. 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

  26. Meadow Plant Bug, Leptopterna dolabrata Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/2.8 1/ 60 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 6/7/ 2012 #miridBugs #miridae #Hemiptera #insects #invertebrates #grasslands #macro

  27. Plant Bug, Lygus pratensis on daisy Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/ 10 1/160 iso: 400 Srbsko, Czech Republic 5/30/2010 #Hemiptera #miridae #Insects #Invertebrates #bugs #plantbugs #Macro #Grasslands #canon

  28. Alfalfa Plant Bug Adelphocoris lineolatus Canon 7D EFS60 2.8 f/4.5 1/400 iso: 250 Milovice, Czech Republic 7/11/2023 #bugs #miridae #PlantBugs #Hemiptera #insects #invertebrates #Macro #grasslands

  29. Potato Cuspid, Closterotomus norwegicus Canon 7D EFS 60 2.8 f/10 1/250 iso: 100 Prague, Czech Republic 6/21/2022 #hemiptera #bugs #miridae #miridbugs #insects #invertebrates #Macro #pests #grasslands #canon

  30. 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