Antennae are thin and rusty brown.
Young bug nymphs are bright red with black markings, whereas older nymphs are colored like adults. The top has a dark brown center. The egg is bottle shaped and is glued down in a mass of 42-182 eggs which forms an irregular, raised patch. Biology Wheel bugs occur throughout North Carolina. They feed voraciously on caterpillars, such as the fall webworm and imported cabbageworm.