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Xenomorf Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Jul 29, 2004

We called them Firebugs as kids.
It's eating my weeds tho. Or drinking the sap.
What is it?

The bottom 4 frames might be youngsters.
Top 2 frames, adults.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 29, 2004

They are certainly a bug (Hemiptera) and not a beetle (Coleoptera).

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Xenomorf Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Jul 29, 2004

Are those adults & youngsters or male & female?

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 29, 2004

Almost certainly young ones and adults. Unlike beetles, whose larval stages are caterpillar-like and quite different from the adults, many true bugs in the Hemiptera go through a series of stages (instars) that gradually become more and more like the adults. Only the adult stage has wings however.

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Xenomorf Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Aug 14, 2006

"Small Milkweed Bug"

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