Urinal entomology
Last Friday, there were 2 of these dead bugs in one of the urinals in the men's room at Fletcher's Cove along the C&O Canal. After I finished my business, I flushed, but the bugs remained. So I took out my camera and photographed them.
They appear to be some sort of stink bug (Pentatomidae).
Luckily, no one came in while I was stooping over the urinal with the camera against my face pointing inside. It would have been difficult to explain my motives.
2 comments:
your family ID is correct, it is probably Euschistus sp., or at least in the Carpocorini.
see:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/247814/tree
Aydin, we've got a bit of blog synchronicity today! (Although I was just posting about something that I thought was a stink bug and ended up not being.)
I think you're right that being caught as the urinal photographer might have been awkward... but memorable.
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