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Shieldbugs Beetle Andy

Green Shieldbugs Eggs (Palomena Prasina)

Original picture of Eggs 

Nature’s Smilies

I grow Poplar trees in pots in my garden for attracting hawk moths, when I checked the leaves I thought these were moth eggs at first, until I looked under a powerful magnified glass, and recognised them as beetle eggs, probably green shield beetle. They looked to me like smileys, or little aliens. I had to use a lot of extensions on my camera as most of these very small eggs will fit on a pinhead, so I laid my camera and lenses etc, on my patio table and held the leaf still with a crocodile clip.

Green Shieldbugs Mating (Palomena Prasina)

     Hawthorn Shieldbug      (Acanthosoma Haemorrhoidale)

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Cluster of young beetle nymphs on a silver birch leaf