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Title: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: Ben 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.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4318/36226514496_0f24575165_c.jpg)

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 30, 2017, 02:00:21 PM

Deadpool beetles?

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: 230RN on July 30, 2017, 02:24:00 PM

Orange alien skullbugs.

(https://us.123rf.com/450wm/armvector/armvector1312/armvector131200031/24805609-alien-roswell-vector.jpg?ver=6)

The orange ones bite.

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: Scout26 on July 30, 2017, 06:01:33 PM

Kissing bugs or Stink bugs.  Smush one to find out which...

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: 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

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: HeroHog on July 30, 2017, 06:12:09 PM

(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.over-blog.com%2F600x400%2F2%2F82%2F89%2F18%2FAPI%2FFlores--Faunes-Nature.%2FFlores--Faunes-Nature.-9877.JPG&hash=737c124d18f2e7c85a02bc69a30ef3bb83a060e8)

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: HeroHog on July 30, 2017, 06:15:23 PM

Google "gendarmes insectes"

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: Scout26 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.

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: HeroHog on July 30, 2017, 06:18:41 PM

http://www.lefourquet.net/newsletters/0602gendarmes.html

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: just Warren on July 30, 2017, 07:12:27 PM

Bphids.

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: Brad Johnson on July 30, 2017, 07:27:40 PM

Cotton stainer nymph.

http://bugguide.net/node/view/44709/bgimage

Brad

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: Ben 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.

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: HeroHog 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.

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: RoadKingLarry on August 01, 2017, 06:57:25 AM

Kill em with fire.

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: Ben 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:

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: Marnoot 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.

Title: Re: What Kind of Bugs Are These?
Post by: TommyGunn on August 04, 2017, 10:51:16 AM

Could they be related to:  [tinfoil]