Probable lygaeoid nymphs

These tiny nymphs were collected by Ryles Richards from an account in Groveland, California. The little bugs were quite numerous. I asked Dr. Lynn Kimsey, of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, what they might be.

She said, based on these photos, that they looked like newly hatched, first instars of one of the lygaeoid families – Lygaeidae, Rhopalidae, Miridae or Largidae, but she would not be able to tell until they molt a few more times.

25 March 2020