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Stinkbug
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
member of a large, widely distributed family of true bugs with flattened, shield-shaped bodies. Most are 1/4 to 1/2 in. (6-12 mm) long.
"stinkbugs" or "clown beetles."
Beetles in the genus Eleodes are known as "darkling" or "pinacate beetles," and colloquially as "stinkbugs" or "clown beetles.
Caterpillers (Lepidoptera), stinkbugs (Pentatomidae), and grasshoppers (Acrididae) have also been reported as major food items [43]. Less often Swainson's warblers eat millipedes (Diplopoda), beetle larvae, and moths (Lepidoptera) [25,43].
Also known as stinkbugs, these beetles are dark brown to black with hardened front wings that are not used in flight. The antennae, which arise from under a ridge near the eyes, have many segments and are enlarged near the tip.
Particularly important foods in the Midwest are June bugs, green stinkbugs, and cucumber beetles, all agricultural pests.
This bat also catches flying ants, spittle bugs, pomace flies, stinkbugs, and small moths.
It is one of about six bat species that regularly eat fish. It will also eat aquatic crustaceans, stinkbugs, crickets, scarab beetles, moths, winged ants, and other insects, but primarily, it is a piscivore (fish-eater).
Little data on their food habits are available. The stomachs of thirteen bats captured in Big Bend National Park were found to contain moths, crickets, flying ants, stinkbugs, froghoppers and leafhoppers, lacewings, and unidentified insects.
 See also: Beetle, Bat, Leafhopper, Nymph, June Bug
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