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A Field Guide To Polyinsectia

by River M.
Utah, KUED

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purple poison bug

Lives: forest or marsh
The purple poison bug gets its color and poison from the the poisoness Plant it eats.

The purple poison bug can lives to be 20 years old. It lays two eggs on a Purple poison plant and in five months the eggs hatch and start to eat the plant.

female
PurPle Poison Plant
male
first day   five months   five months and one week

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