A student from last year, Momo, sent photos of some odd insects she came across in her family's house in Tokyo. They've got some lovely colors - guesses as to what order they are in? Leave some speculations in the "comments" box and test your taxonomic intuitions... (AY)
2 comments:
Top two are a shield bug nymph, possibly Metallic Shield Bug
http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/show_species.cgi?find_this=Scutiphora%20pedicellata
Hemiptera - Pentatomoidea - Scutelleridae
http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_stinkbugs/Scutelleridae.htm
And the second pair is a crane fly, order Diptera, family Tipulidae.
Right?
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