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Mark McCaughrean
Mark McCaughrean
@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

Seek & ye shall find ... even if it will take a while & ye shall also get cold 🥶

Little about in the garden today, apart from a few skittering spiders & an omnipresent firebug.

Plus this wintering-over native shield bug, Holcostethus sphacelatus (Offener Lorch in 🇩🇪).

Easily confused with H. albipes, but they're only found around the Mediterranean & that's not here 😬

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪳
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

A shield bug seen from above, sitting on an ivy leaf. The bug is mostly brown with some reddish tints on the side of the wing cases and the front of the pronutum. There is a straight white edge to the front sides of the pronutum, and black and white checkerboard around the fringes of the abdomen. The eyes are white and red, and the antennae are mostly black with white bands near the joints. There is a white C-shape at the base of the scutellum.
A shield bug seen from above, sitting on an ivy leaf. The bug is mostly brown with some reddish tints on the side of the wing cases and the front of the pronutum. There is a straight white edge to the front sides of the pronutum, and black and white checkerboard around the fringes of the abdomen. The eyes are white and red, and the antennae are mostly black with white bands near the joints. There is a white C-shape at the base of the scutellum.
A shield bug seen from above, sitting on an ivy leaf. The bug is mostly brown with some reddish tints on the side of the wing cases and the front of the pronutum. There is a straight white edge to the front sides of the pronutum, and black and white checkerboard around the fringes of the abdomen. The eyes are white and red, and the antennae are mostly black with white bands near the joints. There is a white C-shape at the base of the scutellum.
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