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Speckled Sharpshooters - mating pair
Paraulacizes irrorata
42.9615, -85.6557
Field Notes
Description:
Speckled Sharpshooters overwinter as adults, seeking shelter in leaf litter, surrounding shrubs and trees. In the Spring the adults move to open areas and reproduce on herbaceous plants.
Sharpshooters have piercing mouth parts which they use to consume plant juices from a wide variety of herbaceous plants. Natural enemies include spiders & dragonflies among other predators. Their eggs are sometimes parasitized by the mymarid wasp (Gonatocerus fasciatus).
Habitat:
Range: Southern Canada, Northeastern, southeastern U.S., Mexico. Food Plants: Asteraceae: Cirsium altissimum (tall thistle), Cirsium sp., Conyza canadensis (horseweed), Lactuca serriola (prickly lettuce), Silphium integrifolium (wholeleaf rosinweed); Poaceae: Elymus virginicus (Virginia wild rye), Sorghum sp. (cultivated sorghum).
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