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My very young Yellow Belles have these bugs on them. They hang out together. They don't like to be photographed. They are very fast moving. I don't se...
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Identification of a bug #842953
Asked July 27, 2023, 8:02 PM EDT
My very young Yellow Belles have these bugs on them. They hang out together. They don't like to be photographed. They are very fast moving. I don't see them fly. They appeared one day and 24 hours later, they had disappeared. They don't seem to be on any other of my plants. The extreme heat doesn't seem to bother them.
Chatham County North Carolina
Expert Response
Theses are instars (juvenile) from the Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera (True bugs). It is shield insect similar to the stink bug. The yellow band on the antenna is very similar to the brown marmorated stinkbug but the images I found are not quite the same.
https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/invertebrates/brown-marmorated-stink-bug#cit
