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  1. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    A couple of recent bugs. The juniper Shield Bug was a bit of surprise at my town office window. The Green Shield Bug was in my garden yesterday.
  2. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Difficult to be certain but it looks rather elongated and the scutellum is green. Isn't this Hawthorn Shieldbug?
  3. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Even better as that was my tentative best guess.
  4. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Many thanks.
  5. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Can anyone help with an ID for this rather poor shot, taken today? Ta.
  6. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    FWIW the New Shorter OED agrees with you Harry. "shieldbug Entomol. any of various broad flat hemipteran bugs, esp. pentatomids, with a shield-shaped pronotum and scutellum"
  7. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Forest Shieldbug Though folk might like this pic of Forest Shieldbug (Pentatoma rufipes), the latest addition to the list of other fauna attracted to my moth lights. So Harry is it Shieldbug or Shield Bug? ;)
  8. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Now what are you trying to get at here Steve? :h?:
  9. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    This probably isn't a shieldbug as such but I'm sure Harry will know it. It was photographed at the weekend in long grass on chalk downland near Winchester.
  10. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Interesting. I identified this as the same species. If I'm right then, yes, they are very variable. This one came to a light trap recently.
  11. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Various Bugs Not sure how many of these are Shieldbugs (and I know a couple aren't) but I need help with Id on all but one. I've included the last bug (Heterotoma planicornis) as it has turned up on a couple of occasions recently and those antennae are really wacky. Edit: There are bigger...
  12. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Its a Mirid Bug. Either this or something very similar: http://www.hlasek.com/miris_striatus_6869.html
  13. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    I think I may have just obtained a slightly better photo of a Parent Bug found under a leaf on the birch tree in my garden.
  14. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Thanks Harry. Should the scotch be taken before or after the beating?
  15. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Keep going with the scotch by all means but the two pics are of the same individual insect.
  16. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Dreadful pictures I know, for which I apologise, but I do not know this small shieldbug found last week on the edge of some birch woodland on the Scottish west coast near Ardnamurchan point. Any help gratefully received.
  17. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    I'm not doing too well at the moment so best check this, but I think the fly is Volucella pelluscens, a hoverfly. Some good pictures here.
  18. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Thanks Harry. I think I now have the difference between Hawthorn and Birch sorted out in my tiny mind.
  19. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Hi Harry Could you just check the ID of this bug please. Came to the light trap over the weekend on the busy night of 30th Apr. Ta
  20. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    From now on Ken always carry a pot with you (you've reminded me to put one back in my pocket). I carried a few around all summer last year. You never know when that little goodie is going to drop by! ;)
  21. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Isn't that Green Shield Bug (Palomena prasina) Harry?
  22. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Found one of these at Weeting, Norfolk yesterday. They are active little fellas and certainly not easy to get a good pic of Steve.
  23. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    More heraldic bugs for Harry The first of these was in a light trap on the Teifi estuary in Wales on 8th August and the other was on Lemon Verbena in my garden near Peterborough on 18th August.
  24. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Another one for Harry. Found just now on my office window near centre of Peterborough, UK.
  25. Brian Stone

    Shieldbugs.

    Shield Bug? I suspect this isn't a shieldbug at all. Over to you Harry.
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