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The invitation
I found this light brown dock bug [ coreus marginatus ] sitting on the top of a lavender flower. I took a few snaps but my camera simply refused to focus on it as it was in deep shade. I invited the bug onto my finger and it willingly accepted the invitation. It posed very nicely on my hand for a few more snaps, in a sunnier spot this time, before it opened its wings and buzzed off to pastures new. I like the beautiful markings on its wings which remind me of ripples in sand, bark beetle tunnels or fingerprints.
The invitation
I found this light brown dock bug [ coreus marginatus ] sitting on the top of a lavender flower. I took a few snaps but my camera simply refused to focus on it as it was in deep shade. I invited the bug onto my finger and it willingly accepted the invitation. It posed very nicely on my hand for a few more snaps, in a sunnier spot this time, before it opened its wings and buzzed off to pastures new. I like the beautiful markings on its wings which remind me of ripples in sand, bark beetle tunnels or fingerprints.