Garden Pests and Diseases: Friend or Foe #2, 1 by Night_Bloom

Night_Bloom wrote:
In contrast, here is one of the plant-feeding leaf footed bugs I mentioned in the first post. This one is not one of the larger varieties, but it does have the enlarged back leg that is often typical of the leaf-footed bug family (Coreidae).

Please note that I labeled this incorrectly. The label should say "tibia" instead of femur. Some leaf bugs have both an enlarged femur and an enlarged tibia that looks like a leaf. Though this one has an enlarged femur also, only the tibia is shaped like a leaf. The tibia is the section of leg just before the "feet" or tarsi. I hope someday to get a shot of one of the leaf footed bugs that has both parts of the legs enlarged, because they are very intersting in both shape and coloration.

This message was edited May 14, 2005 3:06 AM