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Old 13-09-11, 06:20 PM
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Anyone know what this is.
Not sure this should even be on a macro thread. It was taken with my 100-400L from about 10 feet away. I've never seen one before and I'm sure if I'd had my 100 L macro on it would of been easier to recognize.

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Old 13-09-11, 07:46 PM
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Its a shield bug
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Old 14-09-11, 08:45 AM
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And more specifically a Forest shieldbug or Forest bug (Pentatoma rufipes). http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/hetero...a_rufipes.html

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Old 14-09-11, 05:02 PM
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had one of these land on me at work the other week. It deposited something on me, from which orifice I do not know but it smelled really bad and lingered, not nice.
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Old 14-09-11, 05:31 PM
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Many thanks for the ID. Dont know what he was doing walking down the street. Must of been looking for a tasty tree.
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Old 14-09-11, 05:41 PM
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Nigel, I think the Americans call them 'stink bugs'
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Many thanks for the ID. Dont know what he was doing walking down the street. Must of been looking for a tasty tree.
They have wings under the shield/back and can fly, so may have been resting.
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Nigel, I think the Americans call them 'stink bugs'
You're right. They call them Stink Bugs in many parts of the world for the reason outlined by Nigel
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