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Vee8ch Palm Bay, FL(Zone 9b) Aug 08, 2006

So pretty! Do you know what I am?

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trackinsand mid central, FL(Zone 9a) Aug 08, 2006

maybe this one? http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/images/cain901.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/name_c/a_1994.htm&h=350&w=300&sz=10&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=A_8qKJfWjgwzDM:&tbnh=120&tbnw=103&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dharlequin%2Bbug%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG i don't know if this link will work. no, try this one and scroll down about half the page. http://images.google.com/images?q=harlequin+bug&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

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Vee8ch Palm Bay, FL(Zone 9b) Aug 08, 2006

Tracks the Harlequin bug is what I originally thought it might be. After a search I wasn't sure anymore. I can't find a pink one doggone it. It sure does look like a Harlequin huh? I'll keep searching and hopefully I'll find this particular species.
It sure is a pretty thing!
Thank you dear :)

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trackinsand mid central, FL(Zone 9a) Aug 08, 2006

you're very welcome. i like to try my hand at bug ids early in the morning when my brain is fresh! LOL go to google and put in Lopidea confluenta on images. it's just a drawing but they mention pink. i can't get that link to work.

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Aug 18, 2006

It looks like one of the cotton stainers to me. Dysdercus is the genus, not sure which species.... (Order: Hemiptera, Family: Pyrrhocoridae)
Will keep looking...

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Aug 20, 2006

It looks very much like a Scarlet Plant Bug, Lopidea sp.

http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/plant_bugs_miridae

http://www.pbase.com/terrythormin/image/54689441

http://bugguide.net/node/view/13882/bgpage

Lopidea confluenta is grey and pink, attacks daylilies and iris

http://ipm.ncsu.edu/current_ipm/00PestNews/00News7/ornament.html

A long list of Lopidea species

http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=105872

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Aug 20, 2006

Wallaby - I don't think so. Vee's bug has the white outline common to cotton stainers, which Lopidea doesn't have.

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Aug 20, 2006

As a matter of fact. see http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/field/bugs/Cotton_stainer_ID.jpg&imgrefurl=http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/field/bugs/cotton_stainer.htm&h=344&w=500&sz=76&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=1_8nuJicB8psEM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcotton%2Bstainer%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DHPIA,HPIA:2005-37,HPIA:en
Dysdercus suturellus
That's an awfully long link, I'll check to see if it works after I post.

Nope, it didn't. I'll see if I can find another.

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Aug 20, 2006

I see what you mean, the head shape was bothering me too

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/field/bugs/cotton_stainer.htm

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Aug 20, 2006

http://bugguide.net/node/view/64/bgpage?from=20
Third row, bug to far right....

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Aug 20, 2006

Pretty aren't they!

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Aug 20, 2006

Very pretty indeed!

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