First Place: Baby Harlequin Bugs

Second Place: Baby Ladybugs

This is an unsolved mystery, so please send your own guess.

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From: "Geert Moors"
Subject: Mystery Bugs!
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2001 5:17 AM

Hello,

I'm from Belgium, so I rather hard to specify the preciese species, especially since it's a US bug,
but My guess is it is belongs to the heteroptera subclass of insects.

Greetz, G.

From: "Robert E. Williams" <mytbob@home.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Mystery Bugs!
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:46 AM

At this stage they look a lot like freshly hatched Ladybugs.....Bob
Williams

From: "daniel mondot" <danmondot@yahoo.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Mystery Bugs!
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 1:06 PM

They look very much like baby "doryphore" ( french name for "potato beattle"
or "potato bug"). However, I don't remember the eggs being white.. And their
shape seem to be slightly different. It might be a related species...

The potato beattle places the eggs on the back side of a leaf of a potato
plant. and they are arranged in about the same way....
When they are young they are pinkish with dots ( almost like in this
picture ), and do not get the yellow and black stripes until later.

Daniel

From: "Momma {@}v{@} Nightowl" <Lady-Chat-A-Lot@webtv.net>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: mystery bugs
Date: Monday, February 19, 2001 5:28 PM

They sure look like baby ladybugs as they are just hatching

From: "A Coke Smith" <cokesmith@aol.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: mystery bugs!
Date: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 9:01 AM

they are harlequin bugs - order hemiptera, family pentotomidae. nice images!
This is probably the most accurate response so far - mgr