SmugMug > keywords > pest > Younger bed bugs are lighter in color than adults. 

Chicago, Illinois, USA
SmugMug > keywords > pest > Cimex lectularius adult feeding.  Notice how the labium (the sheath surrounding the stylets) folds back to allow the bedbug's piercing/sucking mouthparts to sink deeper into the victim's skin.  

Chicago, Illinois, USA
SmugMug > keywords > pest > Head-on with the common bedbug, Cimex lectularius.

Chicago, Illinois, USA
SmugMug > keywords > pest > An Aedes triseriatus eastern treehole mosquito takes a blood meal.  Illinois.

filename: triseriatus14
SmugMug > keywords > pest > Solenopsis invicta, young alate queen in the nest.

Austin, Texas, USA
SmugMug > keywords > pest > Among the most damaging pest ant species is Solenopsis invicta, a fire ant native to South America.  This species has been accidentally imported to the southern United States, eastern Australia, China, and elsewhere.  Here a worker fire ant is shown in stereotypical defensive posture, her sting extruded, waving a droplet of venom in the air.

Austin, Texas, USA
SmugMug > keywords > pest > Solenopsis geminata is a seed harvesting ant, and major workers have massive heads for powering the blunt seed-milling mandibles.

Durban, South Africa
SmugMug > keywords > pest > A feisty little Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) attacks a much larger fire ant (Solenopsis invicta).  Both species co-exist naturally in subtropical South America, but in the southern United States where both have been accidentally introduced, the fire ant has displaced the Argentine ants.

Austin, Texas, USA
SmugMug > keywords > pest > Martineziana dutertrei is a small scarab beetle that lives in fire ant mounds.

Austin, Texas, USA
Younger bed bugs are lighter in color than adults.

Chicago, Illinois, USA
 > Younger bed bugs are lighter in color than adults. 

Chicago, Illinois, USA
Younger bed bugs are lighter in color than adults.

Chicago, Illinois, USA
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