Help! Is This a Kissing Bug?
Apr 25, 2019 22:41:47 #
Apr 25, 2019 23:08:27 #
I waited for a while to see what others think. It doesn't look anything like the one that bit me.
Apr 25, 2019 23:55:39 #
Apr 25, 2019 23:57:23 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I waited for a while to see what others think. It doesn't look anything like the one that bit me.
You were bitten by a Kissing Bug? Hopefully, it was infected. Glad to it doesn't look like one if that is the case.
Apr 26, 2019 02:51:14 #
Apr 26, 2019 05:25:06 #
kpmac wrote:
Hope I'm wrong but it sure looks like one. Bad news if it is because it was on my property. The last image is not very good but it's the only dorsal view I have.
Nice set Ken.
Apr 26, 2019 05:37:03 #
kpmac wrote:
Hope I'm wrong but it sure looks like one. Bad news if it is because it was on my property. The last image is not very good but it's the only dorsal view I have.
Ken, I have no idea as to what bug this is. The photos are great and the first two are awesome in DDLs. Good job, my friend,
Greg
Apr 26, 2019 06:36:58 #
Apr 26, 2019 07:35:11 #
Apr 26, 2019 07:52:30 #
Apr 26, 2019 08:21:53 #
kpmac wrote:
Thanks, TBerwick. I think I'm ok. Looks like it's not a Kissing Bug. I hope not.
Loks like a member of family Reduvidae subgroup Triamoninae - kissing bugs are a member of this family of bugs. Not really dangerous in North America as of yet- like to bite other mammals.
https://genent.cals.ncsu.edu/insect-identification/order-hemiptera-suborder-heteroptera/family-reduviidae-2/
Apr 26, 2019 09:31:53 #
Apr 26, 2019 09:43:44 #
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
kpmac wrote:
Hope I'm wrong but it sure looks like one. Bad news if it is because it was on my property. The last image is not very good but it's the only dorsal view I have.
I did a search through several hundred images and found no direct match. I would e-mail pics to your local and state agricultural extensions, asking for an opinion. You may want to try and get some with more views, more angles to help with ID. Local University/College may also help, and state/county health departments. I am not an entomologists. Do not go to their "kissing booth".......
Apr 26, 2019 09:51:29 #
Redmond
Loc: Oregon
Where has this kissing bug been, I never heard of it before yesterday... now all of a sudden in the news
Apr 26, 2019 10:20:39 #
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