Triatoma sanguisuga

Wheel Bugs are on the Hunt: Look but Don’t Touch!
Wheel Bug
boggs.47@osu.edu Tue, 08/27/2024 - 10:29
Keep your eyes peeled for adult Wheel Bugs (Arilus cristatus, family Reduviidae) if you’re working among the branches of landscape trees and shrubs. The bugs are highly beneficial. They use their piercing-sucking mouthparts to extract the essence-of-insect from soft-bodied prey such as caterpillars and sawfly larvae. However, they may occasionally use their insecticidal equipment to deliver painful bites to people.
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Joe Boggs
Kayla I. Perry

An Ohio Kissing Bug

Bloodsucking Conenose
The native kissing bug nymph (immature) shown in the lead photograph for this BYGL Alert was given to me last week by a couple who live in eastern Hamilton County, OH. The nymph was collected inside their home. The scientific name for the bug is Triatoma sanguisuga.
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Joe Boggs

A Kissing Bug in Ohio: Don’t Panic!

Bloodsucking Conenose
This past week, the Kissing Bug Triatoma sanguisuga was identified from images sent to OSU Entomology from a resident in Warren County and to OSU Extension, Butler County, from a resident in that county. This kissing bug was given the approved common name of Bloodsucking Conenose by the Entomological Society of America (ESA).
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Joe Boggs
Assassins are on the Loose!
Wheel Bug Nymph
boggs.47@osu.edu Tue, 07/06/2021 - 19:04
It’s common for people to call all insects bugs. However, entomologists reserve the bug name for a specific group of insects that belong to the suborder Heteroptera (order Hemiptera). To emphasize the point, entomologists refer to these heteropteran insects as the true bugs which may imply we consider all other insects to be false bugs but that’s not true.
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Joe Boggs
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