Article: Bug hunter: follow a lifelong bug enthusiast as he journeys into the world of wacky insects.(LIFE INVERTEBRATES)(Randall Toby Schuh of American Museum of Natural History)(Interview)

Randall Toby Schuh, an entomologist, leans over a tangle of wildberry vines. There, this insect scientist, from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, spies his research subjects: green stinkbugs clinging to the berries.

What are these insects up to? Unfortunately for the fruit, these shield-shaped scuttlers are really hungry. With a quick punch of their strawlike mouthparts, the bugs pierce the fruit's protective skin. Then, they slurp up the berry's nutritious sap.

Stinkbugs--named for the ultra-smelly odor they emit--are just one type of insect that scientists categorize as a "true bug." Just as beetles form a distinct grouping of ...

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