Kevin Hewick at Summer Sundae Fringe, Firebug, Leicester, UK.

In french, we name these bugs "gendarmes", literally cops :)

These two ones are having a bit of fun :)

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L'accouplement se passe au début du printemps. Fait curieux, l'accouplement peut durer 30 heures.

Lisa DeVille playing at the Pink Box Records gig, Firebug Leicester UK. Part of Summer Sundae Fringe

Pete Wyeth playing White Noise Summer, Firebug, Leicester, UK.

Her Name Is Calla playing White Noise Summer, Firebug, Leicester, UK.

Firebug / Feuerwanze.

Built 1838.Firebug Gen. William T. Sherman's headquarters in the Civil War.

Gemeine Feuerwanzen (Pyrrhocoris apterus) bei Bemühungen zur Erhaltung der Art.

Ah, spring!

Just some mating firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus).

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Pennyhangers at Firebug, Leicester, UK.

2023_07_18

Plein de gendarmes dans le jardin !!!!

Lots of firebugs in the garden !

Cimice in giardino !

This looks like group ***. The mild winter did not deplete their population. Will be an army once they eclose. I think they are Pyrrhocoris apterus, Gemeine Feuerwanzen in German, Firebug in English.

Firebugs

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Hemiptera

Suborder: Heteroptera

Family: Pyrrhocoridae

Genus: Pyrrhocoris

Species: Pyrrhocoris apterus

Theo playing the Summer Sundae Fringe, Firebug, Leicester, UK.

located & photos by Steve Jeffs; Sompting, West Sussex April 15 & 20th 2012

most were located at or near ground level

Elizabeth Cornish

北埔的螢火蟲

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Taken in the Villa garden on holliday in the south of France

Scott West of Death Of London at White Noise Summer, Firebug, Leicester, UK

Third Day of Spring 2008. At least in the Steffe Calendar. And here is proof. These are the first firebugs I have seen this year.

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Just spotted this little fella.

A pair of Firebugs mating on the side of a raised bed amongst blades of grass

by glen fairchild

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