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Bright and colourful little insects. True bugs with piercing and sucking mouthparts.
These bugs feed on many species within family Malvaceae, as well as cultivated cotton. I've read that have also been observed feeding on Illawarra flame tree flowers, Grevillea and bottlebrush saplings.
This is probably a female, adult, but colour variations are great within this genus.
20 mm body length.
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(114/366) I haven't got a bug butt photo for today but I have got a Bug Box. Like we really need more things to pack when we do eventually move but I couldn't resist buying this for just €4.99 from Lidl.
This lucky little lady bug
has landed here to stay
To make my garden pretty
and keep the weeds away
– Author Unknown
A Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus) on a cluster of blackberries!
Of the 10 British species of Squashbug the Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus) is the commonest and largest species likely to be found in the southern half of the UK. This is an excellent time of year to find them as they feed in the sunshine on ripening blackberrries and other fruits and seeds in preperation for hibernation.
I was able to get this image of a Yellow Cheeked Honeyeater having a feed on some flying insect recently - hope you like it!
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Have a wonderful day and weekend!
Chrysolina Americana - Rosemary Beetle At the organic lavender fields, they ask if you see these little beauties to pick them off and put them in a little container and hand them in. Mr. K decided when he was seeing them to pick them off, however we had not picked up a container lol! So he carried these three little beauties around the fields with him, they are all lying on their backs in this shot, but I will post a diff shot at some point as they were nifty little bugs! HBBBT! They never made it to be handed in as they made their escape before Mr. K made it to the entrance point hee hee!
It's been a little while since I've done any shooting, so I went out for a little while this morning for some macro hunting. It was pretty productive and I found quite a few subjects.
For some reason I have a real hard time getting a nice sharp shot of these guys, maybe beacuase they have so many facets, but I think these bugs are pretty cool and I liked the composition of this shot.
Waiting for the 'It's Tough To Be a Bug' show to start.
I should wear those sexy glasses all the time!
I wasn't concerned
When it landed on my arm
Thought it was harmless
Note: Apparently Assassin Bugs can deliver a rather nasty bite, so I got lucky.
Oncopeltus fasciatus. In the Onion Creek Greenbelt, Austin. These bugs feed on milkweed plants and are unpalatable to predators.
Seen in Epping Forest. Shame about the out-of-focus shoulder pad, I'll know next time to have a larger DOF for one of these beasts.
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Took the Beetle for a spin today after being stored over the winter. Took some shots next to a field of rape. 10 minutes later I broke down and had to call for help. Nice to break down in the middle of a busy island junction!