(Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
Issue No. 174
Frank W. Mead
December, 1976
Introduction
The predatory stink bug, Euthyrhynchus floridanus (L.), is considered a beneficial insect because most of its prey consists of plant damaging bugs, beetles, and caterpillars. This stink bug is primarily a Neotropical species that ranges into southeastern quarter of the United States. It seldom plays more than a minor role in the natural control of insects in Florida, but its prey includes such economic species as southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula (Linnaeus) (fig. 1), orangedog, Papilio cresphontes Cramer, and West Indian sugarcane rootstalk borer, Diaprepes abbreviatus (Linnaeus) (fig. 6).