What??? It crawls AND flies!!! Ewwwwwwwwww

[Junebug]

I don't know about those feet, but the body shape looks like a stink bug. Don't know the scientific name.

[Hedge]

Originally Posted by camille1585

...a friend that raises similar looking ones in him dorm room.

Are you sure that he's a friend?

And do you know what this is, please? About 15 mm body, walking on my apple tree

[sarahrm]

We have lots of those in Houston. That's just a stink bug, that's what we call them locally.

[orchidbingo]

Originally Posted by Hedge

Are you sure that he's a friend?

And do you know what this is, please? About 15 mm body, walking on my apple tree

I think it the dorsal view of Sue's bug!
bingo

[orkie]

Stink bugs, leaf footed bugs, and assasin bugs are all closely related hemipterans found across the U.S. and share a similar body shape. Stink bugs are a little wider towards the head (like the one in Hedge's photos), while assasin bugs and leaf footed bugs have the same shape, but a longer body. To tell those 2 apart, you just need to look at the legs, as leaf footed bugs have that wide leafy structure (like in Sue's photo) while assasin bugs do not (although juveniles do not have this and they are very hard to tell apart at that stage). Both stink bugs and leaf footed bugs feed on plants while assasin bugs eat other bugs. All 3 have a piercing, sucking mouthpart for feeding and at least stink bugs and leaf footed bugs exude a very bad smell...an assasin bug also (only if picked up) can give a pretty painful bite. I've attached a pic I took while in Madagascar of a tropical assasin bug, you can see its tube-like mouthpart pretty well.

Sara

[cb977]

Wow! Thanks for the bug lesson

Thankfully, these little ******** are outside the screenroom.

I have to find a way to get rid of them altogether