I’ve physically been picking the young ones off my runner beans as the bask in the morning sun. But I didn’t watch my climbing French beans and they are very poorly.
The trouble with shield bugs is if pick them off they leave a terrible stench on your hands I know it's their defense against predators, I think they are the hawthorn shield bug.
I identified them as southern green shield bugs. I pick them off and squash them as soon as I see them. Hopefully there’s none left to photograph but the damage is already done.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I identified them as southern green shield bugs. I pick them off and squash them as soon as I see them. Hopefully there’s none left to photograph but the damage is already done.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/green-shield-bugs
What a PITA. I wonder whether the high temperatures we've had this year have meant that the numbers have built up earlier than previously in the UK ?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.