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Description: Adults are tiny (1/8 inch) black bugs with white markings at the base of the front wings, resulting in a band-like appearance across the body when wings are at rest. Wingless immature nymphs are orange.
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Click on image to view larger. Minute pirate bug
Description:
Adults are tiny (1/8 inch) black bugs with white markings at the base of the front wings, resulting in a band-like appearance across the body when wings are at rest. Wingless immature nymphs are orange.Benefit:
Nymphs and adults prey upon a wide variety of arthropods including aphids, chinch bugs, springtails, plant bugs, thrips, eggs and small larvae of corn earworms, whiteflies, spider mites.Life cycle:
Adults overwinter in protected habitats such as leaf litter. Females insert eggs into plant tissue. Nymphs develop through several instars before becoming winged adults.