Granny's gone and done it again

Wishing, google said box elder bugs are "true bugs " ?? :hmm
It's an entomologist thing. There are lots of different kinds of insects, and they get ordered in different.. well, orders. Each order has it's own name... moths and butterflies are Lepidoptera and contain thousands of different species. Bees and ants have their own order, flies have their own, and "bugs" are in Hemiptera (never can remember that one... had to look it up) and they are all similar in having a straw type mouth part they use to pierce and suck fluids. True bugs include insects such as leafhoppers, aphids, cicadas, stink bugs, water bugs and yes those pesky bed bugs. Most people use the word "bug" to stand in for any little creepy crawly, but for people who study them, a bug is a specific type of insect. So when they say true bug, they mean an insect in the order Hemiptera, and not a butterfly or roly poly (which isn't even an insect!!)
 
It's an entomologist thing. There are lots of different kinds of insects, and they get ordered in different.. well, orders. Each order has it's own name... moths and butterflies are Lepidoptera and contain thousands of different species. Bees and ants have their own order, flies have their own, and "bugs" are in Hemiptera (never can remember that one... had to look it up) and they are all similar in having a straw type mouth part they use to pierce and suck fluids. True bugs include insects such as leafhoppers, aphids, cicadas, stink bugs, water bugs and yes those pesky bed bugs. Most people use the word "bug" to stand in for any little creepy crawly, but for people who study them, a bug is a specific type of insect. So when they say true bug, they mean an insect in the order Hemiptera, and not a butterfly or roly poly (which isn't even an insect!!)
learn something new every day. I thought they were all called bugs because they were , well, bugs !
 

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