David Element
Wildlife Photography and Digital Video Images
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Bugs
15 - Parent Bugs
PARENT BUG Elasmucha
grisea
PARENT BUGS Elasmucha grisea PARENT BUGS Elasmucha
grisea
PARENT BUGS Elasmucha
grisea
PARENT BUG Elasmucha
grisea
PARENT BUGS Elasmucha grisea PARENT BUGS Elasmucha grisea
PARENT BUGS Elasmucha
grisea
PARENT BUG Elasmucha grisea
- One of these photographs shows a
cluster of at least 23 Parent
Bug Elasmucha
grisea nymphs sitting on a Birch
Betula sp. leaf. The juveniles are much more decoratively
marked than the adult bugs. As may be evident from this series of
photographs the vernacular name has been derived from the protective (parental)
behaviour of female Parent Bugs towards their eggs and offspring and these
insects are often to be seen in aggregations with more than one stage of
the life-history in evidence. The most likely confusion would be with the superficially
similar Birch Shieldbug Elasmosthesus
interstinctus (illustrated elsewhere on
this site) and both species may be found feeding on Birch.
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