Well, it has been a slow year so far, don’t you think? Apart from a few plume moths and other little micros, you can hardly accuse nature of being in a hurry this year. Nevertheless, today on the factory perimeter fence by the waste ground, I found a shield bug I didn’t recognise, similar to a hawthorn but about half the size:
I’m a bit amazed to have found nothing, and then this completely unfamiliar bug. And then over the weekend, my son found an identical one in our back garden. It turns out to be the juniper shield bug Cyphostethus tristriatus, about a centimetre long. According to my book, it is rarely found away from junipers, but truth to tell, I don’t even know what a juniper looks like. I’d be surprised if they have suddenly sprouted near the factory where they have never been before though, and even more surprised if there were any in our garden. I think this year may bring a bit of an irruption of juniper shield bugs.
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