While I await an answer from my nerd-bag friends on various insect newsgroups, I will share my story. I was pruning some roses and pain shot out from my back like a bee sting, I was pretty sure that I was the victim of a Peruvian dart frog bolt, and would soon be in a pot with cannibals all around me. Racist imagery like this isn't uncommon under times of instant stress; as I was raised on a steady allowance of Tom & Jerry/Bugs Bunny as a child.
No dart, no coma, just an angry mantid looking sort of bug, to whom anger was a gift. This was an ornery bug and I knew that staging him for photos would be difficult, (yes I stage animal exploitation shots, all the greats do it) so I grabbed a plant tag laying near me and scraped him off my back. We made it to the porch where he continued to bite and emanate a rather musky odor. My guess is the classic stinkbug, whatever that is, only the nerds on usenet insect forums can tell though, and as soon as I know, you will know, and scene... The monster:
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