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Stink or soldier bug - how do you tell?
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Posted by julianna_il z6 IL (My Page) on Thu, Aug 23, 07 at 14:55
| I have looked and looked at pictures of the brown stink bug and the spined soldier bug and I just cannot tell the difference. Look at these two guys:
Good:
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/chatham/ag/SustAg/GSFgraphics/stinkladylarva.jpg
Bad:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/pdc/Factsheets/ImagesFactsheets/Stinkbug(web).JPG
The first is a spined soldier bug (good) and the second a stink bug (bad). I found one yesterday hanging out on a Gypsy pepper. Just hanging around, so I took a picture which wasn't detailed enough to see anything. then today he was still on that pepper, which I picked and he peed on it. I tried to sniff it but he came at my nose and I was afraid he would attack me.
So I'm sorry to say I stepped on him. I *think* he was a stink bug, but geeez, how do you tell?
The thing is I planted this beautiful native goldenrod, and it was near the pepper, and goldenrod is supposed to attract spined soldier bugs in fall. But I think when it blooms, and it's not blooming yet.
I do hope I haven't killed another friend. I've already killed a ladybug in haste, thinking it was a bean beetle and it's traumatic. |
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RE: Stink or soldier bug - how do you tell?
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| If when you stepped on that bug you noticed a vile odor it was a "stink bug". If there wasn't that vile odor it wasn't. There is no really good and easy way to tell the difference and some entomologists I know have a difficult time. |
RE: Stink or soldier bug - how do you tell?
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| The "shoulders" of the spined soldier bug are thinner and the points extend out farther in proportion to the body than they do on the stink bug. Also, the tips of the wings have brown spots. When the wings are folded, it looks like one spot at the very center of the back of the bug. Spined soldier bug:
 Stink bug:
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RE: Stink or soldier bug - how do you tell?
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| Excellent way to tell them apart. Thanks squonnk. I know it's an old post, but worth bringing to the top again. |
RE: Stink or soldier bug - how do you tell?
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| these bastards are killing my monarch caterpillars! lol sorry for the rant :) |
RE: Stink or soldier bug - how do you tell?
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| Thanks for the graphic photos. Man I hate those critters. I put on plastic gloves and squish as many as I can before dropping the horrid little bodies in a can of liquid soap. |
I pushed this post up for the pictures
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| Note the more distinct folded wing markings flanking the abdomen and the Playboy Bunny logo at the end. in the heat of bsttle this morning I might have squished a good bug. |
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