Posts Tagged: bordered plant bug

How Blue Can It Be?

How blue can it be? We spotted a metallic blue bug, one of nature's most amazing colors, last Sunday. It was in the Mostly Natives Nursery in...

Close-up of a bordered plant bug, family Largidae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a bordered plant bug, family Largidae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bordered plant bug, family Largidae, crawling on a Euphorbia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bordered plant bug, Largidae, crawling on a Euphorbia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What's That Bug?

Lynn Kimsey knows her bugs. Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis,...

This "mystery bug" is a largid in the group of insects called bordered plant bugs, says Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Holly Millener)

This "mystery bug" is a largid in the group of insects called bordered plant bugs, says Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Holly Millener)

Bordered plant bug on a lily in an Oroville yard. (Photo by Holly Millener)

Bordered plant bug on a lily in an Oroville yard. (Photo by Holly Millener)

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