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Mystery insect bugging experts at London museum

By MEERA SELVA , Associated Press Writer, General Science / Biology
In this undated image made available by Natural History Museum showing the tiny red-and-black bug which is thought to be a new species of insect and that has appeared inside Londons Natural History Museum gardens according to information made availab ...
In this undated image made available by Natural History Museum, showing the tiny red-and-black bug which is thought to be a new species of insect, and that has appeared inside London's Natural History Museum gardens, according to information made available Monday July 14, 2008. The almond-shaped insect, about the size of a grain of rice seems to thrive on plane trees at the grounds of the 19th-century museum, but this insect is not the same as any of the 28 million insects currently classified by the museum, "I don't expect to find a new species in the gardens of a museum," said Max Barclay, Collections Manager at the Natural History Museum.( AP Photo/Natural History Museum)

(AP) -- The experts at London's Natural History Museum pride themselves on being able to identify species from around the globe, from birds and mammals to insects and snakes. Yet they can't figure out a tiny red-and-black bug that has appeared in the museum's own gardens.




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Posted by Mercury_01 07/15/08 11:14
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Its a beetle. Case closed, your welcome.
Posted by Algaholic 07/15/08 12:49
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Definitely not a beetle. Looks like some kind of hemiptera.
Posted by Mercury_01 07/15/08 12:50
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1?!, are you telling me thats not a beetle?
Posted by darvargus 07/15/08 13:09
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looks like a box elder bug
Posted by Mercury_01 07/15/08 13:50
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maybe its a land crab.
Posted by darvargus 07/15/08 14:15
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maybe it cures cancer.
Posted by Mercury_01 07/15/08 15:52
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Maybe its causing global warming.
Posted by Doug_Huffman 07/15/08 21:15
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Not a beetle's elytra. Arocatus roeselii resembles a Box Elder Bug hemipteran.
Posted by brant 07/15/08 22:09
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Maybe aliens dropped it off.....
Posted by Serpentus 07/16/08 00:47
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I've seen that bug.... or maybe it was a similar one??? I live in Chile, When I saw it I thought it was a "Vinchuca", even though it's similar, it's not a vinchucha, maybe the same family??? I hope physorg keeps track of this news
Posted by Andragogue 07/16/08 12:23
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Looks like a boxelder bug (a true bug).

http://www.ext.co...522.html
Posted by mjp 07/19/08 10:54
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Box Elder bug, see: http://www.royala...eld1.jpg
It only lives on Box Elder trees, so far as I know. http://maple.dnr...._box.htm
Question: are there Box Elder trees in London?
Posted by WolfAtTheDoor 07/19/08 16:13
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looks like a box elder bug


Exactly what I thought. Silly scientists.
Posted by seanpu 07/21/08 06:29
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unless we will start calling different coloured humans different special names, its a Box Elder. different colours but otherwise identical.
Posted by snwboardn 07/21/08 08:49
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unless we will start calling different coloured humans different special names, its a Box Elder. different colours but otherwise identical.

Yea we already tried that... From what I've heard it didn't go over too well. Just ask Jesse Jackson and Whoopi Goldberg.