species 6,887 observations

Rice Stink Bug

Oebalus pugnax

Field notes

Oebalus pugnax, the rice stink bug, is a flying insect in the shield bug family Pentatomidae native to North America that has become a major agricultural pest in the Southern United States. It has been a known pest since at least the time of Johan Christian Fabricius, who described the species in 1775.

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2 native plants
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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided