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25-04-2011, 02:28 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kensworth, Bedfordshire (W/ends) and Huntingdon
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| | | Unknown insect for ID please
I'm sure these are very common, but I'm just curious to know what they are - I spotted them in Caddington, Beds., today.  |
25-04-2011, 03:36 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Unknown insect for ID please
Mating Shield Bugs, I can't see the detail too well the sun is shining on the screen.  |
25-04-2011, 03:38 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sheffield, FPRSY
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| | | Re: Unknown insect for ID please
On docks? Then I'd go for Coreus marginatus - dock bug!  |
25-04-2011, 03:46 PM
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| | | Re: Unknown insect for ID please
Agree Dock Bugs, Coreus marginatus. In late summer they are quite partial to blackberries too (but then who isn't? ) |
25-04-2011, 03:49 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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Are Dock Bugs in the Shield Bug group? |
25-04-2011, 03:53 PM
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| |  Re: Unknown insect for ID please
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Originally Posted by The Woodman  Are Dock Bugs in the Shield Bug group? | Technically no, but a closely related group the Coreids, but I didn't want to be pedantic as they are usually included with the shieldbugs. |
25-04-2011, 03:58 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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Aah,thanks aeshna5. |
25-04-2011, 04:10 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kensworth, Bedfordshire (W/ends) and Huntingdon
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| | | Re: Unknown insect for ID please
Thanks very much for all your replies. I'll know what they are if I come across them again.
They were so obvious on a big, sunlit dock leaf next to the footpath, it would have been rude not to take their photo and get them ID'd! | | |
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