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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: daveyboi on May 28, 2012, 14:29:24

Title: Bug identification please
Post by: daveyboi on May 28, 2012, 14:29:24
Could anyone identify the insect in this picture please.

clearest on the bottom right with two of them mating above.



(http://daveyboi.com/images/bug.jpg)
Title: Re: Bug identification please
Post by: OllieC on May 28, 2012, 14:39:37
Some kind of Shield bug I think.
Title: Re: Bug identification please
Post by: ed dibbles on May 28, 2012, 20:00:55
Do they look like any of these?


http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/idcards/life_stages.html
Title: Re: Bug identification please
Post by: manicscousers on May 28, 2012, 20:05:13
Look like shield bugs to me, too  ;D
Title: Re: Bug identification please
Post by: daveyboi on May 28, 2012, 23:43:04
I have had a look at the shield bugs and it is a possibility or it might be a dock bug seeing it is on my rhubarb

Title: Re: Bug identification please
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on May 29, 2012, 17:39:48
Shield bugs, they don't do any noticeable harm.