David Element

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________________________ Bugs 2 Shieldbugs 2

HAWTHORN SHIELDBUG  Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale  BIRCH SHIELDBUG Elasmosthesus interstinctus

        PARENT BUG Elasmucha grisea     JUNIPER SHIELDBUG Cyphosthesus tristriatus

                                   PIED SHIELDBUG Sehirus bicolor

        Sehiurus biguttatus              Sehirus impressus               Sehirus luctuosus

         BISHOP'S MITRE Aelia acuminata                SLOE BUG Dolycoris baccarum

 BRASSICA BUGS Eurydema oleracea  (RED FORM) SPINY SHIELDBUG Picromerus bidens

                                    FOREST BUG Pentatoma rufipes

                              GORSE SHIELDBUG Piezodorus lituratus

                                                    Troilus luridus    

• Several of the bugs illustrated on this page were kindly supplied by Roger Hawkins, author of 'Shieldbugs of Surrey'. All of the above are fully adult insects. More pictures of Gorse Shieldbugs and Hawthorn Shieldbugs may be seen on Bugs 9 and Bugs 12 respectively.

• 'BBC WILDLIFE MAGAZINE' June, 2004 contained an informative article by Richard Jones entitled 'Pick of the bugs'. Check the BBC Animals Website: www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/ for further information about this article and about a new Biological Records Centre Shieldbug Recording Scheme with a downloadable recording sheet.

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