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@rogerhorton.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 11:51 AM

Think this is 3rd instar of Southern Green Shieldbug, Nezara viridula, on the last of my climbing beans today.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #Cambridge

@rogerhorton.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 6:45 PM

I was flattered that this Sloe Bug chose my shirt today in preference to the plants in the Solanaceae bed in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social.
#Bugs #Hemiptera

@wildlifetom.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 5:39 PM

Traveller’s-joy lived up to its name in Purfleet, Essex, delighting this traveller with three new shieldbugs! Dozens of Southern Green nymphs, six Vernal nymphs and, best of all, two adults and a nymph of Sciocoris sideritidis

#Hemiptera #bugs #shieldbugs

A southern green shieldbug nymph resting on a browning leaf. It’s a black and green bug with white spots on its abdomen

A vernal shieldbug nymph resting on a browning leaf. It’s a bronze bug with a mottled red and off-white abdomen

Sciocoris sideritidis resting on a seedhead of traveller’s-joy. It’s a small brown shieldbug with paler marks at the edge of its pronotum and a long, straight sided face

The nymph of Sciocoris sideritidis climbing up a stem of traveller’s-joy. It’s a tiny blackish bug with a white collar

@forloveofinsects.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 3:07 PM

Vuurwants | Firebug
(Pyrrhocoris apterus)

#slotervaart #wants #truebug #hemiptera #insectphotography

@sohkamyung.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 1:51 PM

A Flat-headed Leafhopper nymph (subfamily Ledrinae) spotted at Dairy Farm Nature Park, Singapore on 26 Oct 2025. The side view shows how flat it is; and not an easy shot to get.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Insects #TrueBugs #Hemiptera

Top view of the leafhopper resting on a leaf. It is oval, green and semi transparent on the edge.

Side view of the leafhopper. Its thin shape makes it look distorted. Even the eyes look like a horizontal slit, instead of oval or round.

@kentfieldclub.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 11:29 AM

Some insects from our field meeting at Hever Castle last weekend. Juniper Shieldbug & nymph, Parent Bug, and the picture-winged fly Dioxyna bidentis. #KentNature. #bugs #Shieldbugs #Hemiptera #Diptera

@duleyp.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 11:03 AM

A Rose #aphid nymph on our Dog Rose for #MacroMonday. There's quite a collection of them feeding on fresh shoots that are being put up now the heatwaves are over. #hemiptera #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates

A close up landscape photo of a cluster of aphids on a rose stem. The rose stem can't be seen because there are so many aphids! All the aphids are a bright green, nicely contrasted against a dark out of focus background. The frame is centred so the emphasis is on a younger nymph which is looking to the right in the frame, viewed side on and from slightly above. It has tiny black eyes, a rectangular body, with some nubs of wings that will mature as it grows. At the back of its body it has two horns that stick out backwards. In the mature aphids these are black.

@rogerhorton.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 11:37 AM

A round-up of Firebugs, Pyrrhocoris apterus, in #BuryStEdmunds yesterday:
1: Adult, winged adult, & nymph near Mount Rd;
2: Cornfield Rd; W Suffolk College entrance, & copse;
3: Great Churchyard grave, & leaf-litter; Abbey Gardens.
Most near/on Limes.
#Bugs #Hemiptera
@suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social

@bertonemyia.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 7:36 PM

A collection of little grabby beasts (AKA assassin bugs) from Costa Rica. These must be among the most feared predators in the world of small things...but they sure can be pretty!

#Hemiptera: #Reduviidae

A bright lemon yellow assassin bug sits on a live plant. It has reddish legs with black and white lined segments beyond the base. The head has a black mask across the eyes.

A rusty orange assassin bug with a spiny thorax and white spotted black bases of its wings, sits on a white background.

A bright lemon yellow assassin bug sits on a white background. It has black and white lined striped legs and a red thorax. The head is yellow and the antennae are banded black and white..

@plazi-species.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 8:33 AM

#NewSpecies!
New #truebug from #china just showed up:

Brachybarcinus dilatatus

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03DB87F3-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #BrachybarcinusDilatatus

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #hemiptera #bugs

Brachybarcinus dilatatus, female holotype, dorsal view.

@rogerhorton.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 8:36 PM

Let's see if I can get this right: Dock Bug, Coreus marginatus, on a Gorse bush at RSPB The Lodge today. Quite common south of York. 🤔
#Bugs #Hemiptera

@rogerhorton.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 5:52 PM

Didn't expect to see Firebugs at RSPB The Lodge Bedfordshire today but found one using a Broom pod as a hammock before it climbed up a stem. It may be 'macropterous' ie able to fly which would explain how it got where it was, under Silver Birch saplings.
#WildWebsWednesday #Bugs #Hemiptera

Two close-up photos of a Firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus, on a Broom bush with a third photo of the Silver Birch trees above it. No sign of mallows or lime trees.

@wa-moths.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 9:28 AM

Setocoris sp. - Sundew Bug (I think)

These tiny plant bugs are often found in association with carnivorous sundews (Drosera sp.), where they steal the sundew’s food.

This bug was on a Stylidium, rather than a Drosera, which made it much easier to spot.

#ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist #Hemiptera

Picture of a tiny bug on a creamy white portal. The bug is generally green with a red tip to its abdomen

Picture of the same bug but this time showing the full flower, which has four creamy white petals and small yellow and pink markings at the centre

@rogerhorton.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 6:24 PM

Can't match Vanna's huge cluster of Firebugs, Pyrrhocoris apterus, in Norwich but in a corner of New Square #Cambridge today they were getting close to a Lime tree from a clump of Hollyhocks!
#Bugs #Hemiptera #Botany

@grays.art Sep 8, 2026, 3:09 AM

Mormidea stink bugs
(Mormidea pama)

on swamp smartweed
(Persicaria hydropiperoides)

CREW Flint Pen Strand Trails
Bonita Springs, Florida
8-20-26

#TwosDay #stinkbug #pentatomidae #hemiptera #threeWordGenre #macro #nature #insectThursday #BugSky #art #eck #macroPhotography

macro photo of a pair of Mormidea stink bugs crawling close together on a slender green swamp smartweed stalk, showcasing their heavily pitted dark bodies adorned with striking ivory-cream margins and a prominent white Y-shaped marking on their shields. The scene is softly balanced against a smooth, vibrant yellow-green background bokeh.

@sohkamyung.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 1:46 PM

A Cicada, Purana usnani, spotted at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve on 20 Oct 2025. A common cicada with a loud sound that says, "Welcome to nature."

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Insects #TrueBugs #Hemiptera #Cicadas #Cicadoidea

A large insect clinging vertically upwards on the trunk of the tree. It has a light green head and a light brown body. It has transparent wings with the veins on the wings lined in black.

@duleyp.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 12:14 PM

A Three Spotted Nettle #bug for #macroMonday, a pretty small bug that's about 4mm long. It's in the process of plunging its mouthparts into a nettle, a rigid straw through which it can drink fluid from the plant. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #gardenwildlife #Hemiptera

A landscape photo of a bug on a nettle flower head. The flower head stretches up the left hand side, and the bottom, of the frame. And is a complicated shape made up of light green stalk with very pale hairs, and very delicate, amost fluffy looking, white flowers. The bug is standing in the in the left hand corner that the flower head makes. It is light green, with dark brown patches and is facing out the frame and to the right. It has long antennae, and green alien like eyes in which the hexagona individual lenses can be seen. From below the eyes its beak, a long rigid straw, is protruding and pointing straight down, ready to be plunged into the plant to feed.

@jeremybartlett.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 11:03 AM

Three in a row - Cicadella viridis

Calthorpe Broad, Norfolk, yesterday, with Norfolk Fungus Study Group.

www.britishbugs.org.uk/homoptera/Ci...

#Hemiptera #TrueBugs #UKWildlife

Three Cicadella viridis on a reed stem: two females with bright turqoise green forewings and behind them a smaller male with blue-purple forewings.

@rogerhorton.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 5:39 PM

Popped into the churchyard at St Vigor's Fulbourn #Cambridge while waiting for my fish & chip order.
There was:
A Lime tree ✅
Hollyhocks ✅
…so ideal habitat for…
Firebugs, Pyrrhocoris apterus ✅✅✅🤗
#Bugs #Hemiptera #Beetles #Botany