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What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« on: July 30, 2017, 01:18:58 PM »
Anyone know? This is the first time I've ever seen a bug like this. While out watering the garden this morning, a ton of them exploded out the bottom of a tomato plant. They were only under that plant and nowhere else, including other tomoatoes. I did a search for "tomato bug" and saw lots of red bugs, but nothing like these. A Flickr image search returned hits with lichen.

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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2017, 02:00:21 PM »
Deadpool beetles?
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2017, 02:24:00 PM »
Orange alien skullbugs.



The orange ones bite.
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2017, 06:01:33 PM »
Kissing bugs or Stink bugs.  Smush one to find out which...
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2017, 06:10:42 PM »
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2017, 06:12:09 PM »
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2017, 06:15:23 PM »
Google "gendarmes insectes"
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2017, 06:17:08 PM »
Quote from: HeroHog on July 30, 2017, 06:10:42 PM
Look at this page: http://saintebaume.over-blog.com/article-plan-d-aups-grand-rassemblement-de-gendarmes-110564213.html

I'm not sure how good is Ben's French.  I'm on my phone otherwise I could do better research.
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2017, 06:18:41 PM »
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2017, 07:12:27 PM »
Bphids.
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2017, 07:27:40 PM »
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2017, 01:01:19 AM »
Well, since gendarmes are native to France, I'll probably just have to go with one of the Pyrrhocoridae varieties. Haven't seen anything identical yet, but that seems to be the family.
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2017, 01:09:28 AM »
They did look awfully similar. There are apparently a lot of VERY similar bugs to the ones you came across.
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2017, 06:57:25 AM »
Kill em with fire.
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2017, 09:07:11 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on August 01, 2017, 06:57:25 AM
Kill em with fire.

On the off chance that they were the kissing bugs that scout referred to, I actually dipped into my dwindling stash of illegal malathion and nuked the area.  :laugh:
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2017, 03:33:21 PM »
They look similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhocoris_apterus, which I've been finding in our garden. They seem to be more annoying than actually harmful to anything, like box elder bugs.
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Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
« Reply #16 on: August 04, 2017, 10:51:16 AM »
Could they be related to:  [tinfoil]
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