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Insects of Coal Oil Point > Guide > Heteroptera - True Bugs Heteroptera - True Bugs Heteropterais a very large and diverse order of insects. True bugs are easilyrecognized by their front wings, known as hemelytra- where the basalhalf of the wings are thick and leathery and the tips are membranous.Like Homoptera,their mouthparts are long beaks, which they use to feed on plants orother insects, or in a few cases vertebrate blood. Most true bugs areterrestrial, though a good number are aquatic. The Coal Oil Point Reserve collection contains 24 species of true bugs.  Navigate by family Corixidae| Notonectidae| Anthocoridae| Miridae | Reduviidae | Tingidae | Berytidae | Lygaeidae | Rhopalidae | Saldidae | Cydnidae
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