David Element
Wildlife
Photography and Digital Video Images
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Bugs
32 – Striped Shieldbugs
STRIPED SHIELDBUG Graphosoma
lineatum italicum
STRIPED SHIELDBUG Graphosoma
lineatum italicum
STRIPED SHIELDBUG Graphosoma
lineatum italicum
STRIPED SHIELDBUG Graphosoma
lineatum italicum
STRIPED SHIELDBUG Graphosoma
lineatum italicum
STRIPED SHIELDBUG Graphosoma
lineatum italicum
STRIPED SHIELDBUG Graphosoma
lineatum italicum
STRIPED SHIELDBUG Graphosoma
lineatum italicum
STRIPED SHIELDBUG Graphosoma
lineatum italicum
STRIPED SHIELDBUGS Graphosoma
lineatum italicum
STRIPED
SHIELDBUG Graphosoma
lineatum italicum (nymph)
STRIPED SHIELDBUG Graphosoma
lineatum italicum (nymph)
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The Striped Shieldbug Graphosoma lineatum italicum is
very easy to recognise as the adults look for all the world as if they are
wearing miniature AC Milan jerseys! Doubtless these warning colours advertise
the fact that they have an unpleasant taste. The bugs are abundant through much
of Continental Europe where they will be found on umbellifers, often clustered
together. The white elongated object attached to the bug in the ninth
photograph is the egg of an endoparasitic tachinid
fly (probably Endophasia
or Phasia spp.) that
has been glued there. Once hatched this will burrow through the chitin and feed
on non-vital organs until ready to emerge, whereupon the host will die.
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