even by pentatomid standards, this green shield bug (Palomena prasina) nymph has a pathetically sad looking face, as if it's weakly asking me not to take a photo of it

had the pleasure of witnessing the growth of some tiny little stinkbugs last year. at the time I had no expectations that any of them would hatch, but sure enough I checked on them one day and 10 perfect little guys were looking back at me.

soon enough they had moulted a few more times, and began to disperse into the garden.

once they dispersed I was no longer able to keep track of them, so I'll likely never know what species they are. around the time I found the eggs, I saw this adult bug hanging around the area, so I like to speculate that they might be the parent.

Gentlebug on my front door this morning!

This is a red shouldered stink bug!