Neat Green Insects on Purple Flower

darkdragon

Found these little fellows in Utah yesterday. Not sure what they are, but they were so tiny. The flower is about 3/4 inch across and there were 3 of these green bugs on it. I was amazed when I pulled up the photo and saw the black and white area on the back. Very interesting.

What do you think of this shot?

How do I go about find out what kind of critter this is? Some sort of aphid maybe?

Lord Vetinari

Good find Lisa.
They are capsid or mirid plant bugs

Skippy

darkdragon wrote:

Found these little fellows in Utah yesterday. Not sure what they are, but they were so tiny. The flower is about 3/4 inch across and there were 3 of these green bugs on it. I was amazed when I pulled up the photo and saw the black and white area on the back. Very interesting.

What do you think of this shot?

How do I go about find out what kind of critter this is? Some sort of aphid maybe?

Nice flower too Lisa

There are several books around if you go to amazon.com and look in BOOKS, just type INSECTS and you will find all kinds of cool reference material.

You probably will not find one book that covers everything.

I use this one National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders (Audubon Society Field Guide)

Nice shot .... Skippy
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darkdragon

Thanks Brian and Skippy.

I'll go look around on amazon and see what books I an come up with.

GOLDENORFE

nice shot, seems these bugs are in all countries,just different colours.
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

teamracephotos

Cool Colors
They certainly are not trying to camouflage them selves, Nice find and great capture. MM

cmorganphotography

Hey, this looks like origami. Really delicate and detailed. I like the colours. Looks like the one on the left spilled his morning coffee. I bet he's grumpy.

darkdragon

cmorganphotography wrote:

Hey, this looks like origami. Really delicate and detailed. I like the colours. Looks like the one on the left spilled his morning coffee. I bet he's grumpy.

Thanks! Glad you like it. Definately my favorite macro shot I've ever made so far. Also the most difficult. I'll have to take a picture of the rig I used (think, umbrella on a flash bracket) standing on the side of the road.

cmorganphotography

Yay! Adventure!!