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True Bugs - Order Hemiptera
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    A colony of oleander aphids, Aphis nerii, feeds on milkweed in Iowa. Like monarch butterflies, these insects extract heart-stoppingly toxic chemicals called cardiac glycosides from milkweed and store them as a defense mechanism.
    Mating Twice-stabbed Stink Bugs, Cosmopepla lintneriana, in Wisconsin.
    Plant bug nymph (Miridae) from Iowa.