One for Toto...
- 8 Nov, 2009
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to identify....any idea what this is? he/she was walking on the road....off to the Ugly Bug Ball perhaps!
Not a very sharp picture as taken with my camera phone.
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Come one and all to the ugly bug ball one and all. well captured, is it a sheild bug of some sort.
8 Nov, 2009
Sure is Morgana....but which............?
8 Nov, 2009
Sloe bug -dolycoris baccium ?
8 Nov, 2009
Thanks Aster for that, info much appreciated, Maureen I was singing the wrong song then well hello Doly its so nice Doly :o)
8 Nov, 2009
Could be forest bug -pentatoma rufipes, very similar. Try singing that one lol.
8 Nov, 2009
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.
8 Nov, 2009
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.
8 Nov, 2009
lol Terratoonie can't stop laughing here ha ha he ha
8 Nov, 2009
he he he....:o)
8 Nov, 2009
lol :o))))
8 Nov, 2009
"You're still glowing, you're still growing, you're still going strong" !! ;~)))
8 Nov, 2009
We are all showing our age here lol Sue.
8 Nov, 2009
Great innit ?? ;~)
8 Nov, 2009
He he yep lol :o)))
8 Nov, 2009
They are collectively called "Stink bugs" over here......
You're looking swell, Doly
Smelling well, Doly....
9 Nov, 2009
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.
9 Nov, 2009
LOL,,, brilliant . well done everyone ,thats my giggle for the day ... :o)
9 Nov, 2009
Glad you all enjoyed this bug....and now I know what it is!
13 Nov, 2009
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.
21 Nov, 2009
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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)
8 Nov, 2009