Thursday, September 15, 2011

What's that? A stink bug

This little guy is from the Pentatomidae family, with "penta" meaning five and "tomos" meaning sections (thank you Wikipedia) because its antennae have five segments. Its body is usually shield-shaped (so it's sometimes called a shield bug) and it earned its stink bug name because it can squirt stinky stuff when it is disturbed.

I can totally picture an upcoming science lesson -- How can you make a stink bug squirt?

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