| 13
April 2022
Common
Green Shield Bug,
Elm boundary, The Street (north) |
.jpg) |
| 1
May 2019
On the southern part of the Waterworks Road, Old Shoreham, (which doubles up as a Footpath 31380, I spotted a dozen Squash Bugs, Coreus, including two mating pairs. |
.jpg) |
| 22
April 2019
Amongst dense vegetation on the Widewater flood plain I spotted a Hairy Shield Bug, Dolycoris baccarum. |
.jpg) |
1 April
2019
My
first bug of the year seen in a short flight over the Waterworks
Road, Old Shoreham was a Squash
Bug,
Coreus.
29 June 2018
A small bug on Ox-eye Daisy on the steeper slopes of Mill Hill was my first ever record Calocoris roseomaculatus. This beautifully marked bug is found throughout Britain in dry grasslands, where both adults and larve feed on a range of composites such as Bird's foot Trefoil,Restharrow, Salad Burnet and Kidney Vetch.
31 March 2017
A Common Green Shield Bug, Palomena prasina, rested on an Alexander leaf on the verge if the area of mown grassland at the top of Chanctonbury Drive, north Shoreham.
27
March 2017
A
Squash
Bug,
Coreus, rested on an Alexander
leaf on the verge of the Waterworks
Road, Old Shoreham.
7 April 2015
A Common Green Shield Bug, Palomena prasina, rested on an Alexander leaf on the verge of the Waterworks Road, Old Shoreham.
22
April 2013
A
Common
Green Shield Bug, Palomena
prasina, rested on an Alexander leaf
on the verge of the Waterworks
Road, Old Shoreham.
24
April 2012
| This
Fire
Bug,
Pyrrocoris
apterus, was photographed
at the end of April in Sompting, under the Mallow
plants beside the A27
just on from Lyons Farm. They were mating.
More Bugs |
 |
 |
20
June 2012
Squash Bug, Coreus |
| 3
April 2011
At the top of Buckingham Park, Shoreham, I spotted my first shield bug of the year: the Hawthorn Shield Bug, Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale. |
 |
9 May
2009
The
whirring green insect that landed on me was a Common Green Shield Bug,
Palomena
prasina, the first noted in 2009.
| 23
May 2008
This small bug was spotted on Green Alkanet on the Waterworks Road, Old Shoreham. I could not find this in the Beetles. It is the Bug Mirius striatus |
 |
 |
30
July 2007
This bug rested on an Ivy leaf on the western part of the Pixie Path. This must be the Common Green Shield Bug, Palomena prasina. |
 |
3
June 2007
This bug rested on a Bramble leaf on the northern part of the Slonk Hill bank near the road signs. It was the Hairy Shield Bug, Dolycoris baccarum ID
by Keith Lugg
It was
the only one seen. |
 |
2
March 2007
In a brief burst of early afternoon sunshine, I came across my first bugs (x 2) of the year at the top of Chanctonbury Drive (SE of the bridge to Mill Hill). This must be the Common Green Shield Bug, Palomena prasina. |
