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green ladybird

Last post 18-08-2009 12:12 PM by BB. 12 replies.

• 29/08/2005 06:55 PM

  dsrrturner Location: Joined on: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 1

  Reply | Contact I have found what looks very much like a small ladybird in my raspberries - not unusual but it is khaki green in colour, on it's wing cases, with 2 horizontal black marks along it's length and a black thorax. In all about 5mm in length(doesn't look like a shield bug - but I have those as well). Does this sound like a Harlequin. I have never seen a green ladybird before but wondered if it was an immature form perhaps? - I have looked at all the descriptions on the ladybird survey website and none seems to fit Can anyone identify ?

• 30/08/2005 12:56 PM

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  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743

  Reply | Contact Hi if you are an RHS member you can send the bug to Andrew Halsted at Wisley and he will be able to identify it for you. Mr. Halstead is the chief entomologist for the RHS and he has helped me to identify insects which i had no knowledge about. However if you do send the bug to Wisley put it in a container first i sent mine in an envelope and it arrived in "kit form". good luck and let us know when you find out what the bug is. digger

• 06/08/2006 07:08 PM	In reply to
  dianne Location: Joined on: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 1	Reply | Contact We have just found a very small green coloured insect that looks very much like a ladybird on our raspberries - it has yellow and black bars across its back and a black and yellow spotted line around the base of its greeny-yellow body and a black head with rather a blunt 'snout'. There appear to be stripes on it's antennae. Can you identify this for me please.

• 06/08/2006 07:51 PM	In reply to
  stevew Location: Joined on: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 408	Reply | Contact Im not sure Diane but this link helps with identification, click on the titles to see pictures [url=http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/beetle0.htm]http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/beetle0.htm[/url]

• 30/08/2006 07:30 PM	In reply to
  Felicity Location: Joined on: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 1	Reply | Contact It sounds like a shield bug nymph (a google image search for this will bring up something like what you found I'm sure).

• 15/07/2007 06:29 PM	In reply to
  Eirlys Location: Joined on: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 2	Reply | Contact I, too, have found a green ladybird in my raspberries. I should not have got to this website had I not been curious about it. It was about half the size of a normal ladybird, darkish green but unmistakeably a ladybird. My major problem this year has been with young woodlice eating the raspberries, essentially sucking each small seed sac dry.

• 16/07/2007 04:43 PM

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  bogweevil Location: Joined on: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 2,043

  Reply | Contact Go here to identify potential harlequin ladybirds: [url=http://www.harlequin-survey.org/]http://www.harlequin-survey.org/[/url] Most suspects are harmless, so steady with te fly swatter. As there is nothing that can be done about the harlequin ladybird there is no reason to be immediately concerned. I am very impressed with the climbing ability of your woodlice to reach raspberry fruits. In an airy environment high up a cane I would have expected them to dessicate. They can only survive in really damp places. Boggy Beware the bat-eared bogweevil

• 31/08/2007 03:50 PM	In reply to
  HM Location: Joined on: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 1	Reply | Contact I have found several of these green ladybirds (in berkshire). They are on dead rose leaves. they are definately not shield bugs as somebody else suggested although the larger ones do not have such bright colouring as the smaller ones. I'd loveto know what they are as I cannot find any images of anything remotely similar.

• 31/08/2007 07:11 PM	In reply to
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact If you don't get any luck in identification of your bug,and if you are an rhs member you can send the bug to wisley and it will be identified for free. digger

• 31/08/2007 09:34 PM	In reply to
  Wilbram Location: Joined on: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 2	Reply | Contact Hi Try this website it says they are Green Shield Bugs stage 3 [url=http://www.grosse.is-a-geek.com/greenshield.html]http://www.grosse.is-a-geek.com/greenshield.html[/url] Hope this helps

• 31/08/2007 09:44 PM	In reply to
  Wilbram Location: Joined on: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 2	Reply | Contact [url=http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/invertebrates_terrestrial_and_freshwater/Palomena_prasina_/ARK015176.html][/url] Hi A Green Shield Bug in its Third Stage[img]http://www.uknature.co.uk/CGSBug.jpg[/img]

• 18/08/2009 12:03 PM	In reply to
  Son Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 18 Aug 2009 Posts: 1	Reply | Contact I found two of these in my flowerbed last week. I will try and post in the photos section as I can't work out how to add it here.

• 18/08/2009 12:12 PM	In reply to
  BB Location: Hereford Joined on: 12 May 2009 Posts: 573	Reply | Contact http://mygarden.rhs.org.uk/forums/t/18506.aspx Above is a link explaining how to post photo's. BB