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Spotting bugs typically breed outside crops in a joining bushland or gardens
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Spotting bugs typically breed outside crops in a joining bushland or gardens
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Adults are reasonably mobile but will linger a while if food is good
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FSB adult. Hard to tell apart from BSB
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This is a BSB. See what I mean? Paler than FSB.
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FSB mating sidesaddle. BSB mate end to end.
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Spotting bugs have many hosts including fruits in home gardens
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Bug eggs are hard to find. Its remarkable that Anastatus are able to find them!
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Here you can see the bugs antenna are developing inside the egg
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A bug is about to hatch from this egg
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A spotting bug hatchling - note white socks.
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A bug egg after the bug has hatched
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FSB nymphs look like BSB nymphs until thaty are about 3 weeks old.
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FSB nymph about 3 weeks old
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BSB nymph about 3 weeks old
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We rear spotting bugs on beans to use for our field experiments
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We use purpose built cages and frames to collect the bug eggs.
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Bug eggs collected for field experiments and keeping our Mother Culture of Anastatus
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Spiders are a significant predator of spotting bugs
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Keep an eye our for bugs caught in webs
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This BSB nymph has been lassoed by a spider smaller than itself
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This St Andrews spider has wrapped up an escaped bug in our greenhouse
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An assassin bug nymph making short work of a BSB nymph
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An Assassin bug egg mass.
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Assassin bugs are generalist predators and catch the odd bug
