Friend or foe?

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  September 2022

  I'd guess they're immature ladybirds

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
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• borgadr Posts: 718

  September 2022

  Looks like some kind of juvenile shield bug. Check out this link https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/idcards/life_stages.html

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• wild edges Posts: 10,497

  September 2022

  I think they're 3rd instar nymphs of the Southern Green Shieldbug https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Pentatomidae/nezara_viridula.html

  The photos on that site aren't the best for showing that stage but the pattern looks about right. It could be a species we don't get over here though but either way it's a shieldbug nymph of some kind and fairly harmless.
  

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• Jacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039

  September 2022

  Thanks I have seen the green shield bugs here so makes sense, just never seen the juveniles before.

  Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.

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