One for Toto...

Toto and I saw this bug during our date at the Ugly Bug Ball, so I'm sure he'll identify it for you....
in fact, I think Toto danced the jitterbug with this one..... :o)

Come one and all to the ugly bug ball one and all. well captured, is it a sheild bug of some sort.

Sure is Morgana....but which............?

Sloe bug -dolycoris baccium ?

Thanks Aster for that, info much appreciated, Maureen I was singing the wrong song then well hello Doly its so nice Doly :o)

Could be forest bug -pentatoma rufipes, very similar. Try singing that one lol.

Gward! what can they eat, to make them smell so bad as that, for their stink bug attack lyrics to a song lol. Pentatoma rufipes its a stink bug which gives out cyanide.

To the tune of Hello Dolly...

Well hello Pentatoma rufipes,
Yes, hello Pentatoma rufipes,
It's so nice to see you back where you belong.... Lol.

lol Terratoonie can't stop laughing here ha ha he ha

he he he....:o)

lol :o))))

"You're still glowing, you're still growing, you're still going strong" !! ;~)))

We are all showing our age here lol Sue.

Great innit ?? ;~)

He he yep lol :o)))

They are collectively called "Stink bugs" over here......

You're looking swell, Doly
Smelling well, Doly....

Yes this is a Shield Bug. It is the Forest Bug (Pentatoma rufipes). It lives around and on deciduous trees and eats fruit, caterpillars and other insects.

LOL,,, brilliant . well done everyone ,thats my giggle for the day ... :o)

Glad you all enjoyed this bug....and now I know what it is!

Its got black and yellow stripes so its done something naughty like smell bad. I have black and yellow tape on my back mudguard for lashing my bike up to the ground floor multistorey car park railings. No notices saying no bikes. So I left it there, the tape I mean, Dorjac rufipes phew.