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Japanese Subsocial Shield Bug

Parastrachia japonensis

Not Evaluated

About

A subsocial shield bug where mothers carry drupes of a specific tree to their underground nests to feed their nymphs. This provisioning behavior is exceptionally rare among true bugs.

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Did You Know?

Mothers repeatedly leave the burrow to collect and carry fruit back to their young, one of the only true bugs to provision offspring.