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22-06-2008, 03:58 PM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Deal, Kent, UK
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| |  What is this Cream and Black Bug?
There are several of these in my nettle patch:  
Please can anyone identify them? |
22-06-2008, 04:10 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Lancashire
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| | | Re: What is this Cream and Black Bug?
I've never seen anything like this before. It looks like a Ladybird with funny spots but I'll wait for a more expert opinion. In the meantime welcome to WAB. 
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22-06-2008, 04:19 PM
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| | | Re: What is this Cream and Black Bug?
Thanks for your reply. I was half expecting hundreds of people to say that's easy it's a...
I don't think that they are ladybirds, their heads are different. More beetle-like and the antennae are longer. |
22-06-2008, 04:22 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: What is this Cream and Black Bug?
It's an early instar of a shield bug... but I'm not sure at the moment which one. |
22-06-2008, 04:26 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Lancashire
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| | | Re: What is this Cream and Black Bug?
Coud it be a Pied Shield bug ?
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22-06-2008, 04:31 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: What is this Cream and Black Bug?
I think you could be right about it being pied shield bug |
22-06-2008, 06:14 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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| | | Re: What is this Cream and Black Bug?
Yes,I'd say that was conclusive enough.
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22-06-2008, 09:36 PM
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| | | Re: What is this Cream and Black Bug?
I concur,
It is a nymph of a Pied Shieldbug, S.bicolor
I wish I could find it, I've looked for it for many years, but I'm too far north for it.
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