How to Remove Box Elder Bugs
As autumn begins in the north temperate zone, many residents will find boxelder bugs (Boisea trivitatta or Boisea rubrolineata) taking... 
Image of the Month- Sept 2015
Here we have a cluster of Leptocoris vicinus nymphs on Eugenia from Guam. The nymphs shown here differ in color from the ones we have...
How to Raise Soapberry Bugs!
There are many reasons you may want to rear your own insect colony. Perhaps you want to display the insect life cycle in the classroom, take better...
Image of the Month- August 2015
These images were shot on a recent expedition to Australia by Scott Carroll and Jenella Loye. They are the first of Leptocoris isolatus in the...
Image of the Month - December 2014
While perusing a website of West African plants we were lucky enough to stumble across this image of a Leptocoris feeding on the seeds of...
First Photo of Leptocoris toricollis in nature
Gaby Schulemann-Maier, a globetrotting German naturalist, has taken the first photographs of Leptocoris toricollis in the wild. Gaby's...
Image of the Month - October 2014
This month's image shows the strange pairing of Jadera haematoloma and Leptocoris augur mating in Taiwan. J. haematoloma has...
New Jadera comparison sheet available
Print-out and poster sized images of Jadera that you can download, print, and share.
NSF bets big on David Angelini
This school year, east coast students will become junior soapberry bug scientists as they document the insect's northern advance! K-12 students will...
Image of the Month - May 2014
A vibrant red, teneral (freshly molted) boxelder bug displaying an excellent vantage of the beak with protruding stylets. Soapberry bugs, as with all...
Soapberry bug paper regarded "Most Influential"
Editors of The International Society for Behavioral Ecology celebrated the 25th anniversary of the journal by compiling influential articles and...
First host record for Jadera diaphona
This Central American species has been reported from Mexico to Panama, but nothing has ever been reported about its biology. Scott Carroll observed...
Image of the Month - March 2014
An exquisite lateral image of Leptocoris mitellatus in Australia.
Image of the Month - January 2014
We are kicking off the new year with this marvelous photo of Boisea rubrolineata, the Western Boxelder Bug. During January, large aggregations...
Image of the Month - November 2013
This month we have more exciting images from our friend Mark Yokoyama. While scaling the rugged and sparsely populated Caribbean Island of St.
Image of the Month - October 2013
Chandrahas Dabke took this radiant photo of a pair of Leptocoris dispar in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai, India.
Please click the link below to visit his Flickr page, which features more of his beautiful nature photography.
Image of the Month - April 2013
Clustered shoulder-to-shoulder and foot-to-back, these Boisea coimbatorensis valiantly vie for space on garden leaves beneath an old...
Image of the Month - March 2013
This Jadera haematoloma nymph is in the process of molting-- shedding its old "skin" to proceed to a new life stage. Soapberry bugs pass...
Image of the Month - February 2013
Pictured above is an aggregation of Boisea rubrolineata on plants near a boxelder maple. Clustering together not only facilitates social...
Image of the Month - January 2013
We welcome the new year with naturalist Mark Yokoyama's image of a mysterious soapberry bug from St. Martin Island in the West Indies.
Its unique...
New Guide for identifying Soapberry bugs
This easy-to-use guide will help you distinguish between different North American soapberry bugs by allowing you to visually compare appearance and...
Image of the Month - November 2012
In our November image of the month, two soapberry bugs ask the timeless question: into how many baskets should you put your eggs?
In many species...
New soapberry bug publication
Scott Carroll and Jenella Loye carefully analyzed the interactions of soapberry bug populations and their plant hosts worldwide. They discovered that...
Image of the Month - October 2012
This hungry Leptocoris cinnamonensis nymph was photographed feeding on Cardiospermum pechuelli in Namibia's Namib-Naukluft Koedoesrus...
Image of the Month - September 2012
Vera Wald photographed this beautiful Jadera nymph in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil. Despite the astonishing detail of...
Image of the Month - August 2012
A male Boisea trivittata shows off its colorful underbelly whilst taking a walk on a window. Oftentimes the bright coloration on the forewings...
Image of the Month - July 2012
Dr. Jürgen Deckert photographed this colorful African Leptocoris mutilatus feeding on...
Introducing a new species of soapberry bug!
Meet Leptocoris ursulae, a new species of soapberry bug we have just described from the Mountains of the Moon in western Uganda, on balloon...
Image of the Month - June 2012
Radha HS photographed these hungry Boisea coimbatorensis nymphs in Mysore, India. The nymphs are feeding on a Sapindus (soapberry tree)...
Image of the Month - May 2012
In this superb macro shot, a fifth instar Taiwanese Leptocoris vicinus nymph can be seen carefully grooming its beak. Days after this photo...
Image of the Month - March 2012
Noah Blades captured this vibrant macro of a curious Boisea trivittata in Indiana. B. trivittata is thought to have originated in the...
Image of the Month - February 2012
In this photo, both Jadera haematoloma and Boisea rubrolineata are feeding on the cotelydons of a golden rain tree seedling. Typically...
Image of the Month - January 2012
James Niland photographed this aggregation Leptocoris tagalicus in Ipswich, QLD, Australia. At least two generations of L. tagalicus...
Image of the Month - December 2011
Jessica Lucia photographed these tiny Boisea trivittata nymphs at the base of a boxelder tree, where they were born and will continue to...
New images added- we're almost there!
Scott Carroll and Jenella Loye recently returned from a visit to the Berlin Naturkunde Museum with many images of previously unphotographed species!...
Image of the Month - November 2011
Paul Looyen photographed this attentive Leptocoris tagalicus in Lane Cove National Park (Sydney, Australia). Her rounded abdomen contains...
Image of the Month - September 2011
Cindy captured this beautifully composed image of a teneral (recently molted) Jadera haematoloma in Fullerton, California. Please click the...
Soapberry bugs in OnEarth Magazine
In "Living with Aliens", OnEarth magazine describes how soapberry bugs' capacity for rapid adaptation has contributed to a new, evolutionary approach...
Image of the Month - August 2011
Jung-Ming Wang captured this incredibly detailed image of a brachypterous female Leptocoris augur feeding (likely on Koelreuteria) in...
Image of the Month - July 2011
Oliver Wu took this colorful photo of a mating pair of brachypterous Leptocoris augur on Cardiospermum halicacabum in Luzhu, Taiwan.
B. trivittata on cover of American Entomologist
The summer 2011 issue of American Entomologist features Boisea trivittata on the cover. The image was taken by William Ciesla in Fort...
EOL x soapberrybug.org collaboration
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an online reference to all 1.9 million formally described species. Soapberrybug.org has become a content partner...
Revised translation posted
A revised English translation of Göllner-Scheiding's 1979 paper on Jadera species has been posted. Please click the link below to download the...
J. haematoloma featured on EOL's "One Species at a Time"
Jadera haematoloma was the subject of the Encyclopedia of Life's "One Species at a Time" podcast. Please click the link below to listen to the...
Image of the Month - April 2011
Elise Fog of Enlightened Bugs took this excellent photo of Boisea rubrolineata, the western box elder bug, in McKenzie River Valley, Oregon.
New host discovered
During a recent visit to a small town in the Mexican state of Jalisco, Scott Carroll and Jenella Loye discovered Jadera coturnix thriving on...
Official launch of soapberrybug.org in December
The Institute for Contemporary Evolution has been invited to speak at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. The meeting is scheduled for December 12-15 of 2010 and will...
Soapberry bugs featured on Time.com
Jadera haematoloma were featured on Time.com in their piece on the "Top 10 Weird Insect Mating Rituals". Male J. haematoloma are known to guard their mates by prolonging...
Boisea fulcrata featured in Grocott's Mail
After residents of Grahamstown and Bathurst, South Africa noticed unusually large aggregations of Boisea fulcrata, a short article on this...