Mictis caja
Large Squash Bug at suppressed
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| Mictis caja | DiBickers | 14 Jun 2025 | |
| Unverified | MazzV | 29 Apr 2025 |
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User's notes
This is a pair of long & large brown bug with orange-tipped brown antennae on a bitter melon vine (Mordica charantia). As with the other specimen at sighting 4666357, they had a propensity for being either belly up under something, e.g. a leaf, or facing downwards on a stem.
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Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- MazzV Recorded by
- bitter melon vine (Mordica charantia) Associated plant
- a mating pair Associated animal
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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- MazzV NatureMapr New South Wales North Coast Other true bugs True bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) Insects Mictis caja
Species information
- Mictis caja Scientific name
- Large Squash Bug Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 96m Recorded at altitude
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