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What color is the box elder bug?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Red as eggs and nymphs and dark black/brown and red as adults are the colors of the box elder bug.

Specifically, the box elder bug (Boisea trivittata) goes through incomplete metamorphosis. This means that it completes three development stages. Red predominates as the color throughout the egg, nymph and adult stages.

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