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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  July 2017

  Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!   I'm in Norfolk!!!   Man the barricades!!! 

  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• JamesO Posts: 230

  July 2017

  I hope I have done the right thing I just cut it off sprayed with some pest spray I have and is in our green collection bin which the local council collect which I think goes in an incinerator

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  July 2017

  Waste from green waste bins usually gets composted.

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  July 2017

  If they are stink bugs we may have a problem.

  http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/brown-marmorated-stink-bug

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  July 2017

  Have a look at this. I stand by my first thought.

  https://maristilson.wordpress.com/tag/chrysalis-stage/

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  July 2017

  The third photo down is so similar to your original photo.

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  July 2017

  However hubby thinks they are 1st stage nymphs of blue shield bug

  http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/blue-shieldbug

   I guess if you have sprayed them we will never know.

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  July 2017

  Fidget is right.

  Ladybirds do come from eggs, which the larvae emerge from.

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  July 2017

  

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• Zenjeff Posts: 652

  July 2017

    Brown  marmorated stink bug (BMSB) nymphs, first instar, cluster around a massImage

  looks like these to me

  

  Yours

  

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