4 Aug 2021

ID help please - NOT amateur radio

We saw this small beetle on our walk earlier. It was about 5mm long. 

It is probably very common, but I am no beetle expert! It stayed on my arm for a long time.

This was in East Anglia, not far from a small river.

4 comments:

  1. Is that a beetle or a tick ?

    If it's the latter then they thing might be carrying Lyme disease !

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  2. Pied Shieldbug

    http://www.dorsetnature.co.uk/pages-hemiptera/hem-06.html

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  3. Yes I think you are right Rupert - thank you.

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