Sloe Bug
Sloe Bug (Dolycoris baccarum)
Some of the salad plants bolted and produced flower heads. Apparently this means they are no longer any good for eating and are best added to the compost heap.
Curiousity prompted me to leave them a few days to see what the flower heads looked like and I was tickled to find this Sloe Bug feasting on the buds.
A pretty little shield bug from the Hemiptera order, similar to the bugs I spotted last year on my sister's berry bush (as yet I haven't been able to identify it).
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Tags: beasties, garden wildlife, hemiptera, shield bugs, sloe bug
Posted on July 2, 2009 in Wildlife.
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