There's an alien in my garden, HELP

[hawkaye]

somebody save me, please

[Mr Noble]

What the heck is that!!!

Martin!!???

[hawkaye]

I have no idea mate

[Gemm]

Stink bug.

[CarMac]

OMG ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww that is horrid.



Well shot though!

[hawkaye]

found it, it's a Shield Bug (Picromerus bidens)

just to show you the size of it, here's another shot:

Edited by hawkaye on Thursday 26th July 22:22

[imperialism2024]

Wow, you have small ones over there. I've seen some here that are an inch or so long.

[CarMac]

It looks far less hideous from a distance!

[Gemm]

I actually think they are quite beautiful. But just don't touch them.

[Furyous]

That was interesting, I was looking at those pics at work and a pair of the younger techs came over and had a look.They were absolutely amazed at the quality of the pics, specially when I showed them the life size pic.

I guess we get a little to close to our hobby to appreciate quite how good things can be sometimes.......

[hawkaye]

It is amazing Mark. I never used to pay any attention to insects (and hated spiders) until I started photographing them only recently. The funny thing is that each insect/fly/spider is completely different in one way or another, great stuff.