Found and Lost and Found - _TNY_2270
We're spending two weeks of our summer vacation at my mother-in-law's house outside Härnösand which is about 500 km north of our house in southern Stockholm.
When I was eating breakfast a couple of days ago, my MIL told me that she had found a weird bug in the kitchen, but had relocated it out in the patio railing under a plastic cup for me.
But when we went out to see what she had found, there was no plastic cup. It turned out the wind had taken it and I found it on the ground beneath the patio. To my surprise however, the bug was still on the patio - and it was this assassin bug known as Rhynocoris annulatus!
There are two Rhynocoris species in Sweden, but so far I've only come across this one a couple of times. The other one is also black and red and hopefully, Ill find one of those the next time.
Found and Lost and Found - _TNY_2270
We're spending two weeks of our summer vacation at my mother-in-law's house outside Härnösand which is about 500 km north of our house in southern Stockholm.
When I was eating breakfast a couple of days ago, my MIL told me that she had found a weird bug in the kitchen, but had relocated it out in the patio railing under a plastic cup for me.
But when we went out to see what she had found, there was no plastic cup. It turned out the wind had taken it and I found it on the ground beneath the patio. To my surprise however, the bug was still on the patio - and it was this assassin bug known as Rhynocoris annulatus!
There are two Rhynocoris species in Sweden, but so far I've only come across this one a couple of times. The other one is also black and red and hopefully, Ill find one of those the next time.