Tags
Adelphocoris lineolatus, British bugs, British crickets, Common fleabane, Common froghopper, Conocephalus fuscus, Coreus marginatus, Dock bug, Dolycoris baccarum, Hairy shieldbug, insects on Common fleabane, Long winged cone-head, Lucerne bug, philaenus spumarius
The subjects of today’s blog about those insects managing to survive this over-heated summer by feeding on Drought-tolerant Common fleabane are bugs, and two examples of one cricket species, because I managed to find both male and female. Let’s begin with bugs …
Two Lucerne bugs (Adelphocoris lineolatus), pretty little things but both trying to hide from me.
I actually saw quite a few Common froghoppers (Philaenus spumarius), and in several of their wonderful variety of brown-and-cream pattern variations.
Clad in its brown armour-like skin and looking ready for a fight, a Dock bug (Coreus marginatus).
An adult Hairy shieldbug (Dolycoris baccarum). (I’ve found quite a lot of nymphs of this species recently and feel they deserve their own blog – you’ll see why soon.)
And now for the crickets. These are Long-winged cone-heads (Conocephalus fuscus), a type of bush-cricket. I’ve just realised that this species has only featured on this blog once before, in July 2020, when I included a photo of a nymph in the post 202/366 More misc minis. The first photo shows a female, though, unfortunately, her impressive ovipositor is mostly obscured; the second image is the male, with a much smaller appendage.
