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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-77--751717268 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Angus, On 5-Oct-06, at 6:54 PM, Angus MacLean wrote: > I have been admiring stink bugs in our garden for the past several > months. Now I realize they can cause a lot of damage so I should be > removing them (I suspect that would be not easy!). > > I found this one in our house. It is the Green Stink Bug > (Acrosternum hilare), I believe. (The similar looking Pale Margined > Stink Bug (Chlorochroa perimilis) is different enough to be > eliminated. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/58321572@N00/259863230/ A good photo and an interesting record. I'll look into this further. I have found these stink bugs and have always thought they were members of Chlorochroa but Acrosternum hilare is an excellent match. > The more common brown/dark & tan stink bugs are intriguing as to > their ability to escape spider webs. I watch them getting caught > but they extricate themselves, then walk across the web to the next > plant. These are quite small compared to the Green Stink Bug. Here > is a photo of a dark one: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/58321572@N00/261752191/ This isn't a stink bug at all, it is one of the so-called "buffalo- treehoppers" in the Membracidae (Hompotera). These were formerly in the genus Stictocephala but are now placed in the genus Ceresa. There are four species in the Maritimes: Ceresa diceros (Say) Ceresa alta Walker Ceresa basalis Walker Ceresa borealis Fairmaire And this one is either Ceresa diceros. See: http://bugguide.net/node/view/32431 http://bugguide.net/node/view/32432 Or Ceresa basalis: http://bugguide.net/node/view/31014/bgpage Its hard to make out from the photograph. Cheers, Chris _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6 (902) 424-6435 Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. --Apple-Mail-77--751717268 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">Hi Angus,</SPAN><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span"><BR><DIV><DIV>On 5-Oct-06, at 6:54 PM, Angus = MacLean wrote:</DIV><BR class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE = type=3D"cite"> I have been admiring stink bugs in our garden for the = past several months. Now I realize they can cause a lot of damage so I = should be removing them (I suspect that would be not easy!).<BR><BR> I = found this one in our house. It is the Green Stink Bug (<I>Acrosternum = hilare</I>), I believe. (The similar looking Pale Margined Stink Bug = (<I>Chlorochroa perimilis) </I>is different enough to be = eliminated.<BR><BR> <A = href=3D"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58321572@N00/259863230/" = eudora=3D"autourl"> = http://www.flickr.com/photos/58321572@N00/259863230/</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><= DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">A good photo and an interesting record. I'll = look into this further. I have found these stink bugs and have always = thought they were members of=A0Chlorochroa but=A0<I>Acrosternum = hilare</I> is an excellent match.</SPAN></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE = type=3D"cite">The more common brown/dark & tan stink bugs are = intriguing as to their ability to escape spider webs. I watch them = getting caught but they extricate themselves, then walk across the web = to the next plant. These are quite small compared to the Green Stink = Bug. Here is a photo of a=A0 dark one:<BR><BR> <A = href=3D"http://www.flickr.com/photos/58321572@N00/261752191/" = eudora=3D"autourl"> = http://www.flickr.com/photos/58321572@N00/261752191/</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><= BR></DIV><DIV><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span">This isn't a stink bug at = all, it is one of the so-called "buffalo-treehoppers" in the Membracidae = (Hompotera). These were formerly in the genus <I>Stictocephala</I> but = are now placed in the genus <I>Ceresa</I>. There are four species in the = Maritimes:</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class=3D"MsoNormal"><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span"><I>Ceresa diceros</I> = (Say)</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span"><I>Ceresa alta = </I>Walker </SPAN></DIV><DIV class=3D"MsoNormal"><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span"><I>Ceresa basalis</I> = Walker</SPAN></DIV><I>Ceresa borealis</I> Fairmaire<DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">And this one is either=A0<I>Ceresa = diceros</I>. See:</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://bugguide.net/node/view/32431">http://bugguide.net/node/view= /32431</A></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://bugguide.net/node/view/32432">http://bugguide.net/node/view= /32432</A></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Or=A0<I>Ceresa = basalis</I>:</DIV><DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A= = href=3D"http://bugguide.net/node/view/31014/bgpage">http://bugguide.net/no= de/view/31014/bgpage</A><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Its hard to make out from the = photograph.</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chris<BR><DIV> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT = face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">Christopher Majka = - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Times">1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>B3H 3A6</FONT></P> <P