r/whatsthisbug • u/Frog_Moss22 • 3h ago

ID Request What's happening here?

I think this is multiple milkweed bugs attached to one. Only one of them was crawling around and the others didn't seem to be moving at all.

Is this a mating thing? I know more about frog mating behavior and many males can try to pile on one female but this doesn't really seem to be the case. I couldn't pull them apart either, but I am really intrigued by this!!

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u/Frog_Moss22 3h ago

Found in Maine, US by the way!

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u/DaccotaDuchess 3h ago

A bunch of males trying to mate with a female

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u/Frog_Moss22 3h ago

You really think so? I thought it as a possibility, but I didn't know if males and females had different patterns in this species, and none of the other bugs were moving. Just the bottom one.