Found two new (for me) species of shieldbug on holiday in Cornwall! Tortoise bug and Pied shieldbug #pentatomidae #shieldbugs

I found this little shieldbug around the res at Ingbirchworth this afternoon - it was feeding on white dead nettle & think it is a Pied Shieldbug - Tritomegas bicolor. I don't remember ever seeing one before - Barnsley Nats Barnsleybiodiversity Tristan Bantock

Very few butterflies about in Orlestone forest earlier (at least in the section I visited !) so looked for a few bugs instead several Tortoise Shieldbugs (heres two ) +Vernal Shieldbug and Denticulate Leatherbug (Happy to be corrected !)

Hairy Shieldbug, Dolycoris baccarum.Biodiversity Ireland Martine🦋Brennan🍄 Dave McG Dorothy Heaphy Jenny Patterson Phoebe O'Brien Richard T. Mills

Pleased to see this two shieldbugs recently (both firsts for me):

Woundwort shieldbug
&
Tortoise bug

#InspiredByNature #wildlifephotography #nature #NatureBeauty

Austins.moths BC Somerset & Bristol Butterfly Conservation 🦋 This is the first time I've found it despite looking often. Keep an eye out for the Woundwort Shieldbug. Cool beastie!

Shieldbug drying itself(?) in the garden this morning - have never seen this before!

Some adorable Tritomegas bicolor (Pied Shieldbug) nymphs on White Dead-nettle this afternoon in Shropshire 🥰

If you think the common Dandelion is only useful as a nectar source when flowering, think again!
Many different birds eat its seeds & the seed-head itself is often an arena for .. love & intrigue maybe?
Red & Black Rhopalid pair mating & a Hairy Shieldbug in a Dandelion in Hove.

Pentatoma rufipes - the only British shieldbug species to overwinter as an early instar nymph.

This lil green shieldbug says henlo.

Shieldbug mating

The Shieldbug eggs are hatching! Think it’s taken about a week. Tara 🦋 Rockwolf 🇪🇺💙🩸🅰️➕ #shieldbugs

A Blue Shieldbug, Zicrona caerulea, seen in Telford yesterday with vc40ladybirds 🐞 . Always a treat!

Nice colour variation in this group of Tortoise Shieldbug (Eurygaster testudinaria) in Gunpowder Park, Sewardstone, Essex yesterday. Also a 16-spot Ladybird wandered into shot. #LeeValleyWildlife #EssexWildlife

Lift Off!

A Shieldbug I photographed in my garden today.

#shieldbug #insects #macrophotography #earthcapture #minibeast

#GoodMorningEveryone happy #InsectThursday #Shieldbug inspecting #Acer

This very well camouflaged common Green Shieldbug was spotted on a leaf while we were picking raspberries yesterday.

Brassica Shieldbug (Eurydema oleracea). Available in a variety of different colours.

Excited to have found my first Spiked Shieldbug (Picromerus bidens) in wet meadow area Lagan Meadows today. Borrows the colour palette from the Forest Bug/Red-legged Shieldbug (Pentatoma rufipes) but those thorn-like shoulders characteristic.