FAMILY LYGAEIDAE (Seed Bugs)

Hemiptera-Heteroptera-Lygaeidae-Nysius MATING (A)

Nysius

Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Coordinates: 31.335571, -110.938096
February 10, 2019
Size: 3.5 mm to tip of wings
For the past month, a patch of dry Bermuda grass has been covered with at least hundreds of thousands of these critters
Male on the left, female on the right
Determined by Salvador Vitanza
Confirmed by Vassili Belov

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