| Stink Bugs - Superfamily PENTATOMOIDEAThis page contains pictures and information about Stink Bugs that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
Any shield-shaped insect of the superfamily Pentatomoidea, especially any of the family Pentatomidae called Shield Bug. They also called Stink Bug. They have stink glands. These glands usually give off a foul odor when the insect is disturbed. As all other bugs in the Order Hemiptera, bugs in superfamily Pentatomoidea have one common characteristic: their sucking mouths. All of them suck juice from plants or other insects. They usually have flat and soft bodies. Their forewings are toughen on the base area and with a membranous tip part. Their antennae are well developed with up to five segments. They are
incomplete metamorphosis and their young, the nymphs, look much the same as
their adults except smaller and wingless. When bugs just hatched from eggs as 1st instars, they usually stay around their eggs cases. In general the1st instars nymph bugs do not feed when they first emerge. They spend some time ingesting bacteria which the female deposited on the eggs when she laid them. The bug have to liquefy the food with saliva first before they can feed on it.
Classification :Superfamily PENTATOMOIDEA
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