Well, Hello There!

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Happenings in the insect world

Well, Hello There!

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Published on: October 16, 2012

At first they appeared on our pomegranate tree, our 85-year-old pomegranate tree.

Then they migrated over to our passion flower vine, Passiflora, where we're trying to rear Gulf Fritillary butterflies (Agraulis vanillae).

They're leaffooted bug nymphs, Leptoglossus clypealis.

They look like little cartoon characters,

They have beady eyes, narrow necks, needlelike beaks, long legs, and I swear, a perennial quizzical look.

Saturday morning cartoon characters?

Leaffooted bug nymphs, Leptoglossus clypealis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Leaffooted bug nymphs, Leptoglossus clypealis. crowd a leaf of a passion flower vine. Note the yellow Gulf Fritillary eggs on the leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a Gulf Fritillary caterpillar. These leaffooted bug nymphs are sharing leaves of the Passiflora with Gulf Fritillary caterpillars. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tags: leaffootted bug (1), Leptoglossus clypealis (2), Passilfora (1), passion flower vine (9)

Comments: 2

Comments:

by Margaret hope

on October 17, 2012 at 5:24 PM

Just found your photos . . .they are magnificent to the highest degree of quality and Interest!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful work!

by Tracy

on August 6, 2017 at 1:43 PM

Found this page while trying to decide if the insects I was seeing on my butternut squash vine were friend or foe. You really caught some beautiful detail on these Leptoglossus nymphs. Sadly though, they are foe, so they must go; as your pictures show, they are quite beautiful against the green leaves and stems.