Is This A Green Shield Bug?

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One from today, I thought this was a Shield Bug but it looks different from the other Green Shield Bug in my gallery.C&C most welcome.


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It is indeed.

I found one the other day that was a completely different colour to the original green one I had photographed before!! :)

It had a lot of dark maroon colour on it as well as the green and I noticed it was crawling on the grass in patches of a very short weed of the same colour. Was wondering if they use the same effect as chameleons?

AHA.. there are half a dozen different types and yours is indeed a Green Shield Bug and mine was a Hawthorn Shield Bug I think.
 
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Janice said:
It is indeed.

I found one the other day that was a completely different colour to the original green one I had photographed before!! :)

It had a lot of dark maroon colour on it as well as the green and I noticed it was crawling on the grass in patches of a very short weed of the same colour. Was wondering if they use the same effect as chameleons?

AHA.. there are half a dozen different types and yours is indeed a Green Shield Bug and mine was a Hawthorn Shield Bug I think.
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Thanks Janice, interesting point re the Chameleons.
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It's a nymph rather than the adult.
They go through 5 nymph stages (known as instars) before a final skin shed that makes them an adult.

I think this is a 3rd instar
 
squishy said:
It's a nymph rather than the adult.
They go through 5 nymph stages (known as instars) before a final skin shed that makes them an adult.

I think this is a 3rd instar
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Thanks for the info, very interesting.

(y)
 
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