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fiat_knox ([personal profile] fiat_knox) wrote2009-09-16 10:59 pm

Entomological help needed

Can someone identify the species of bug in the pics below for me? I'm curious.





It Bugged Me, Too

(Anonymous) 2009-09-16 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Green Shield Bug (Palomena prasina)

http://www.gardensafari.net/english/picpages/palomena_prasina.htm

Don't Stamp on it! (b-boom, tish!!!)

Nigel

Re: It Bugged Me, Too

[identity profile] fiat-knox.livejournal.com 2009-09-17 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
:) Thanks. This was in the folks' garden last night. By what I've been told, it looks like a nymph rather than an adult. The photos above were taken by my camera. I cropped the originals.

Re: Here you go...

[identity profile] fiat-knox.livejournal.com 2009-09-17 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
:) Very proud, hon. Thanks.

I was at Mum's when the bug appeared on the green beans. Mum came in all excited, and we both went out with our cameras to take photos.

It was barely a full stop of a little thing, but I'm glad that Lucy could get over her wanting to focus-on-the-pretty-background, not-on-the-bug issue long enough to actually take a clear image of it.

Re: Here you go...

[identity profile] wolf-heart9.livejournal.com 2009-09-17 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
I know what you mean. There's a feature on my camera that lets me get tiny details up close like that. Thus the green bug in my last series of photos from last Saturday.

Re: Here you go...

[identity profile] fiat-knox.livejournal.com 2009-09-17 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yup. Those were lovely photos, by the way.

Re: Here you go...

[identity profile] wolf-heart9.livejournal.com 2009-09-17 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ta, love. I'm glad you liked them! :)

[identity profile] lyny-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-09-17 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a rare, emerald morph of the no-so-common Egyptian scarab stink beetle! Usually they're pink...

:P