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Bugs

A firebug resting on a dead seedhead. It's a surfboard-shaped bug with a black head, black legs and a red body with black markings

Firebug

A blue shieldbug, shiny and metallic, walking across a leaf

Blue shieldbug

A tortoise shieldbug standing on a leaf. It's a rounded, reddish-brown bug

Tortoise bug

A juniper shieldbug clinging to the leaves of a cypress tree. It's a green shieldbug with a curving pink marking on each side of its back

Juniper shieldbug

A brassica shieldbug resting on a leaf. It's an oval-shaped, black bug with a white border around its body and three white dots across its back, near the wing tips

Brassica shieldbug

A bishop's mitre shieldbug clinging to a grass seedhead. It's an oval-shaped bug with a pointed face. It is golden brown with darker stripes along the back.

Bishop's mitre shieldbug

Four woundwort shieldbugs standing on a leaf. They're compact, shield-shaped brown bugs with patches of irridescent coppery red on their head and back

Woundwort shieldbug

A dock bug resting on a leaf. It's a broad, brown bug with prominent shoulders. Its long antennae end in dark tips.

Dock bug

A cinnamon bug, red with black markings, resting on a leaf

Cinnamon bug

A horned treehopper sat on a leaf. It's a brown bug with two horns rising from the pronotum, which also extends back along the body in a wavy spine

Horned treehopper

A red-and-black froghopper clinging to a grass stem. It's an oval-shaped bug thats mostly black with red patches on its back

Red-and-black froghopper

A gorse shieldbug standing on a gorse bush. IT's a green shieldbug with red antennae and yellow sides to the abdomen

Gorse shieldbug

Hairy shieldbug

Hairy shieldbug

Bronze shieldbug

Bronze shieldbug

Lesser Water Boatman

Lesser water boatman

Common froghopper

Common froghopper

Hawthorn Shield Bug

Hawthorn shieldbug

Birch Shield Bug

Birch shieldbug

Parent Bug

Parent bug

Spiked Shield Bug

Spiked shieldbug

Forest Bug

Forest bug

Common Green Shield Bug

Common green shieldbug

Common Water-measurer

Common water-measurer

Common Pond Skater

Common pond skater

Water scorpion wildlife trust

Water scorpion

Water Stick Insect

Water stick insect

Common Backswimmer

Common backswimmer

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