Can anyone identify a bright green bug found on my thornless blackberry?
By Queenie
Surrey,
United Kingdom 
It looks like a small grasshopper with long articulated legs but smaller and without the 'hopping' legs I think it's eating the leaves, leaving large chewed holes and chewed through the growing tip - grrrr!
7 Jul, 2009
Answers
No not a shield bug - they are flatter and bigger will try to get pic, as I have the offender in a jar!
7 Jul, 2009
It sounds a bit to me like the Rose Chafer (Cetonia Aurata)
8 Jul, 2009
there are many species of grass hoppers and their juvenile look like mini adults minus the wings. so it could well be a grasshopper or a cricket.
8 Jul, 2009
does it look like this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmg25/3703529148/
i was thinking it was a grasshopper, but now i'm not sure.
9 Jul, 2009
Yes! Tmg25 that is exactly the blighter - you're kinder than me -mine is lanquishing in a jar til I can identify it - do you know what it is? a rose chafer as Telme suggests?
9 Jul, 2009
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Isits body shield shaped? if so it a Green Shirled bug (although the long articulated legs makes me think not), Perfectly fine and not a pest, Good as it eats bad bugs, a pic would be nice if possible
7 Jul, 2009