He’s been stacking with me this morning. Kind of looks like a small praying mantis but with a chalky gray body, orange stripes on his legs and antennae, and red outline on his abdomen. He’s really cool!
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 18 Jun
leptoglossus occidentalis
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16 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 18 Jun
Thanks, but I’m hoping you’re wrong. I’m sitting at a coffee shop on the Ohio/Indiana border. That guy would be invasive here. Fortunately, I think you did nail the family, but not the species. This guy has more curvature of the body and a different color scheme.
It looks like that species you found eats Douglas fir seeds out in the Pacific Northwest, and this cafe is in a grove of pine trees, so it makes sense he’d be in this environment.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 18 Jun
I'm not sure what it's called in English, but in Portugal, we call it a 'pine cone picker'. I read that it's a native species of the American West.
https://m.stacker.news/35898
(Immature nymph > Nymph > Adult)
https://www.unac.pt/images/Sugador_das_pinhas_Leptoglossus_occidentalis.pdfreply
16 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 18 Jun
Yeah, thanks for sharing! This particular kind I’m seeing today has a really cool color scheme and shape.
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