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What kind of shield bug is this?

JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
in Wildlife gardening
There are lots of these wee chaps (or chap-esses?) on one of my verbascums today. Sorry it's a bit blurry (clearly the phone camera wanted to focus on the leaf).
There was also this one on a nearby lupin, which I think is a common green shield bug?  Is the first one maybe a juvenile form of the same thing?

Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained

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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited May 2023
    Have a look here - maybe Sloe?
    https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2021/05/shieldbug-identification/
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Thanks @LG_ , that looks like it. These ones didn't read the textbook though - apparently they're supposed to live mainly on plants in the rose family.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Try hairy shield bug - dolycoris baccarum they like verbascums apparently.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Thanks @floralies . Apparently that's the same as @LG_ 's Sloe Bug. Nothing I looked at said they like verbascums, but they certainly like this one. I counted 20 before I gave up because they wouldn't sit still! Now if only they ate aphids.......
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    My book says that they like certain plants in the potager as well but doesn't specify which ones!
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