Shieldbugs. (4 Viewers)

[The Hairy Highlander]

Found this Shield bug photo in my archives and would like to put a name to it. Can anyone help...I'm guessing it's a Fern Shield Bug?

 

[harry eales]

Found this Shield bug photo in my archives and would like to put a name to it. Can anyone help...I'm guessing it's a Fern Shield Bug?

Hello H.H.,

Your beastie is The Forest Shieldbug Pentatoma rufipes. A common species throughout Britain, It's common name is a bit on a misnoma as this species can be found almost anywhere.

Regards,

Harry

 

[The Hairy Highlander]

Thanks for that Harry. :t:

 

[upstarts1979]

Shieldbug ID please

Hi everyone found this shieldbug on clothes on washing line
in Redditch worcestershire May 2006

an ideas
cheers John

 

[aeshna5]

Looks like the Dock Bug ( a Coreidae; shieldbug relative), Coreus marginatus- often on docks, squashes + partial to blackberries!

 

[harry eales]

Looks like the Dock Bug ( a Coreidae; shieldbug relative), Coreus marginatus- often on docks, squashes + partial to blackberries!

I agree C.marginatus, not a true Shieldbug but them you can't have everything. lol.

Harry

 

[upstarts1979]

Looks like the Dock Bug ( a Coreidae; shieldbug relative), Coreus marginatus- often on docks, squashes + partial to blackberries!

Thanks for that and Harry aswell

are they common never seen one before or since and my garden is well and truly managed as a wildlife garden.

cheers John

 

[aeshna5]

Thanks for that and Harry aswell

are they common never seen one before or since and my garden is well and truly managed as a wildlife garden.

cheers John

Certainly very common down south!

 

[harry eales]

Certainly very common down south!

Totally unknown in the north east of England.

By this I mean Northumberland and Durham. Not Norfolk and Lincs which to people living in the metropolis is the NE. lol.

Harry

 

[birdy866]

Unresolved identification problem

Hi!
Still waiting for the identification of the bug given in the thread given below.

My thread

 

[Ficedula]

Assuming you took this photo in Pakistan then i think you are asking too much to expect an identification. I dont know any Hemipterists that specialise in that part of the world. You will probably have to take a specimen and send it to a museum and even than is a long shot. Not even sure about Family but most reminds me of Rhopalidae.

 

[harry eales]

Hi!
Still waiting for the identification of the bug given in the thread given below.

My thread

Hello Birdy866,

I assume your out in the general area of the Indian sub-continent. All I can say about your 'Bug' is that it appears to be one of the Coreidae

Somewhat similar to our Box Bug. The identity of numerous true 'Bugs' in many countries of the world is not at all well known. Even in Europe the idenfification of some species is a problem.

Harry

 

[birdy866]

Thanks Ficedula and Harry Eales for the response. Actually I post for any possible help, if not possible then it's ok. I know that the identification of bugs is not an easy task.
Anyhow once again thanks for the guidance.

 

[138mph]

New Parent Bug?

Hi
Found this little fellow in my Luton, Beds. garden today. I think it must be Elasmucha grisea? Sorry about the poor image but I couldn't get a firm footing and it hid as soon as I had taken this shot.

Hugh

 

[harry eales]

Hi
Found this little fellow in my Luton, Beds. garden today. I think it must be Elasmucha grisea? Sorry about the poor image but I couldn't get a firm footing and it hid as soon as I had taken this shot.

Hugh

Hello Hugh,

To be honest I wouldn't like to make a positive ID on this one, as you say it's a poor shot, been there myself on many an occasion.

Try again tomorrow, you may have more luck.

Harry

 

[busyb]

Hi Hugh,

I think this could be Klleidocerys resedae not a shield bug but a true bug ( one of the Lygaeidae ) they normally feed on birch or alder catkins, also known to feed on rhododendron - any of these in the garden or nearby ?

HTH Keith

 

[138mph]

Thanks,

Hi Hugh,

I think this could be Klleidocerys resedae not a shield bug but a true bug ( one of the Lygaeidae ) they normally feed on birch or alder catkins, also known to feed on rhododendron - any of these in the garden or nearby ?

HTH Keith

Hi Keith,

Yes thank you for that, I am pretty certain that you are correct.
I was somewhat worried by the shape of the pronotum as well as colouring and the transparent wings. And, yes there are seven trees of various Betula species in my garden.

Regards,
Hugh

 

[Birding Bob]

Afternoon,

Could anyone please tell me what species of Shieldbug this is? I found it whilst walking around my local wood last night.

Thanks,

Robert

 

[busyb]

Robert,

It looks like a late instar nymph of the forest bug Pentatoma rufipies

HTH Keith

 

[harry eales]

Robert,

It looks like a late instar nymph of the forest bug Pentatoma rufipies

HTH Keith

I'd agree, a P. rufipes nymph, the Forest Shieldbug.

Harry