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    Large white butterfly by Silvia Cojocaru, Radnorshire Wildlife Trust

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Species Explorer

Bugs

Firebug

Blue shieldbug

Tortoise bug

A juniper shieldbug clinging to the leaves of a cypress tree. It's a green shieldbug with a curving pink marking on each side of its back

Juniper shieldbug

A brassica shieldbug resting on a leaf. It's an oval-shaped, black bug with a white border around its body and three white dots across its back, near the wing tips

Brassica shieldbug

A bishop's mitre shieldbug clinging to a grass seedhead. It's an oval-shaped bug with a pointed face. It is golden brown with darker stripes along the back.

Bishop's mitre shieldbug

Four woundwort shieldbugs standing on a leaf. They're compact, shield-shaped brown bugs with patches of irridescent coppery red on their head and back

Woundwort shieldbug

A dock bug resting on a leaf. It's a broad, brown bug with prominent shoulders. Its long antennae end in dark tips.

Dock bug

Cinnamon bug

Horned treehopper

Red-and-black froghopper

Gorse shieldbug

Hairy shieldbug

Bronze shieldbug

Bronze shieldbug

Common backswimmer

Lesser Water Boatman

Lesser water boatman

Common froghopper

Rhododendron leafhopper

Hawthorn shieldbug

Birch shieldbug

Parent Bug

Parent bug

Spiked shieldbug

Forest Bug

Forest bug

Common green shieldbug

Common Water-measurer

Common water-measurer

Common pond skater

Water scorpion

Water stick insect

Saucer Bug

Saucer bug

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