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bugs in the Thistle Corridor linking

F inal August, hot, very hot, the grass is yellow and the flowers of Umbelliferae, which recently offered a large amount of nectar in their flowers tiny insects have their heads drooping, falling as looking at soil. Only a few plants keep a certain freshness to these temperatures and drought. For its part, the bugs have developed their wings field completely after the last molt and become adults and it's time they play. A field bugs like flowers of the Umbelliferae, but now are dry most of them. The meeting place for the couples to be one of the few plants that even you can feed.

in our meadows, ditches, fallow and tips, from sea level to mid-mountain what better place than the thistle broker? And this is not a true thistle, but an exceptionally umbelliferous protected and adapted to the arid Mediterranean. Its scientific name: Eryngium campestre . Al thistle may we thank symbiont and feed it to a fungus, mushroom, thistle, Pleurotus eryngii. And that is why he also called thistle mushroom.

The runners thistles bloom in summer and when dried, and entering the autumn winds, are often torn off and rolling meadows and roads, such as shrubs of American Westerns. This will disperse the seeds that are falling by the wayside. But on the ground are rhizomes, than for large plants can take up several meters in diameter and in symbiosis with it, the mycorrhizal fungus, soon, if the year is wet, will receive their fruiting bodies: the delicious mushrooms.

On a walk through almost any Iberian landscape, which is not very high mountain our road will be flanked by these humble thistle and over them in great profusion, bedbugs extracting field last drinks of wise and feeding on nectar or other insects, all there.

Among the most common bugs is striking Graphosoma lineatum, impossible to go unnoticed with the top drawn from black and red lines and dots on the belly.

also quite common in our latitudes is another species of the same family (Pentatomidae) and similar size, Carpocoris mediterraneus, and find them equally dedicated to ensuring the next generation. Here in the mountains of Madrid, over a thousand meters of altitude, the bugs are engaged in intercourse, but a month ago, near the sea on the coast of Alicante, the same species was already laying eggs. different families (Lygaeidae) we find, at a time and in the same thistles, the bugs of the hazels, Spilostethus saxatilis, which incidentally, has never attacked the hazel of my garden, but abundant in meadows around the house.

The copy of the picture below the left wings have atrophied and lets us see clearly the superior hardliners, who is the one color, and the membranous wings and flying, which is below and looks at back where they usually cross to the opposite side.

All have bright colors, ads for their toxicity or off-flavors, which most often come from the same plants from which they feed. So are quiet and allowed to observe without altering too. At best, try to be on the opposite side of the stick where they are perched, like playing hide and seek, or attempt to introduce a little more between the spiny leaves of the thistle, to feel more secure. That makes us a little picture, not everything is gonna be so easy, but leaving them quiet a while back about their business and affairs exercise allowing voyeurs naturalists. If we are impatient and annoying, we punished and be dropped from the thorny leaves of the base or will fly.