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This flat, shield-shaped bug is common throughout England and Wales, but less so in Scotland.
It is bright green and stippled with tiny black dots in spring and summer, but changes to greeny-bronze in autumn. Its wing tips are dark brown.
Adult shield bugs hibernate in grass tussocks or leaf litter and emerge in May.
Females lay clusters of small, barrel-shaped eggs on the undersides of leaves. These hatch into wingless nymphs, which crawl between plants to feed, and become the new generation of adults in September. These bugs can often be seen basking in the sun during late summer before they hibernate. Both adults and nymphs suck plant sap.
It is sometimes called a green stink bug as it produces a pungent odour from special glands if handled or disturbed.
The plant is known as Burdock (Arctium)
Растението е известно като: Репей, Голям репей, Чичек, Лопуш, Лепка
This was the first time I'd seen these bugs and it took me awhile to find an ID. It's an apt name because these bugs are only about 4mm-7mm (1/8"-1/4") in length. They are also called Twice-stabbed Stinkbugs because they have two red spots on their backs and are part of the Stinkbug family. Like other stinkbugs, they emit an obnoxious odour when they feel threatened. This mating pair were sure hard to photograph because not only were they tiny, but they were constantly running throughout the plant at warp speed.
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I had no idea what kind of bug this was... it let me get close and personal... it was on the motel front step... this seems to be the year of the bug of all walks and kinds... I am constantly on guard for all our creepy guests.... including the 2 legged kind... haha...
This is the final instar stage of a Common Green Shieldbug/Stinkbug
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I was thrilled to find this very pretty hawthorn shieldbug (edit: I'd written mid instar, but Rockwolf, expert on all things shieldbug, and more :), confirmed it's a final (5th) instar; thank you!), rambling in the garden at the weekend. I do love shieldbugs and found this one incredibly pretty, with the green and pink/red and that yellow 'fingernail' pattern at the back. As with all other shieldbugs I've ever encountered, I found this one incredibly difficult to photograph, because my natural style is to photograph from the side, focused on the eye, but this doesn't seem to show the bug at its best, and because the bugs are so angular, the photos always turn out looking awkwardly focused, even if the eye is in focus... so here's a top-down-ish view of this little gem, and I’d still liked to have gotten the stunning back end sharp.
"Every kid has a bug period. I never grew out of mine."
- E. O. Wilson
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This stink bug was one of the first visitors to my parents memorial garden which I just expanded and added new plants to. Photographed in Maryland.
Although in the same subfamily, this Stink Bug is completely different in colour and markings from the distinctively patterned one uploaded yesterday.
Stink Bug was about 3/8" long
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Some female Stink Bugs (Shieldbugs), like this one in Brazil, shield their eggs from attack by parasitic wasps (another reason to call them shieldbugs?). If you look closely, you can see the little red eyes and tiny piercing mouthparts of the nymphs just beginning to develop inside the eggs.
Most of the flowers have died back now, but the rudbeckias are still hanging in there. This bright bloom was visited by an Orange-belted Bumblebee and what appears to be some kind of stinkbug. I couldn't get in any closer because the light was very low on the horizon and I didn't want to create a shadow.
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• Stink bug / shield bug
• Chinche / chinche hedionda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
(unranked):Paraneoptera
Superorder:Condylognatha
Order:Hemiptera
Suborder:Heteroptera
Infraorder:Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily:Pentatomoidea
Family:Pentatomidae
Subfamily:Pentatominae
Tribe:Carpocorini
Genus:Acledra
Species: Acledra bonariensis
Salinas, Canelones, Uruguay
• Stink bug / shield bug
• Chinche / chinche hedionda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
(unranked):Paraneoptera
Superorder:Condylognatha
Order:Hemiptera
Suborder:Heteroptera
Infraorder:Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily:Pentatomoidea
Family:Pentatomidae
Genus: Thyanta
Salinas, Canelones, Uruguay