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Strange Insects

  • 15-07-2010 7:04pm
    #1
    jaqian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭


    Seeing some strange insects recently and was wondering if anyone knew anything about them, are they native to Ireland?

    Ladybird...
    picture.php?albumid=394&pictureid=6812

    Beetle...
    picture.php?albumid=394&pictureid=6813


Comments

  • #2
    Rebel021
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Rebel021


    Seen those Ladybirds a few times never seen that beetle.

    I saw a red spider a few weeks ago that I never saw before and a weird beetle that was black and yellow and about an inch long.

    The invasion is on.


  • #3
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    The second one is a shield beetle. They're normal enough though. Not sure about the colouring of the ladybird in the first.

    :)


  • #4
    AnimalRights
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    I've photographed that shield Beetle in St Anne's Park Raheny b4....just thought I'd share that nugget of information like.


  • #5
    Crispin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Crispin


    AnimalRights wrote: »
    I've photographed that shield Beetle in St Anne's Park Raheny b4....just thought I'd share that nugget of information like.

    Is there just the one individual in Ireland :eek: ;):p


  • #6
    Crispin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Crispin


    Actually just to clarify the shield *bug* is a bug (order Hemiptera) rather than a beetle (Coleoptera). Hemiptera include things like aphids. The ladybirds are pretty common, but that species might not be a native.... honestly not sure without a book to hand. :)

    EDIT: As far as I know that species is a non-native species, probably a Harlequin however impossible to tell without having the specimen.


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  • #7
    oshead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭oshead


    The second one is a Forest Shieldbug. Pentatoma rufipes. Easily identified by it's particularly prominent should pads.


  • #8
    jaqian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭jaqian


    Thanks lads didn't know you were all so knowledgeable, well actually I did, thats why I asked :)


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