Are these em? https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/march/monitoring-stink-bugs-to-anticipate-the-future.html
NO WTF. From icers link. If members of the public think they have found a brown marmorated stink bug, NIAB EMR encourage them to first check online to make sure it hasn't been confused with a native species such the green shield bug, which turns brown over winter. 'There's also a sloe bug named after the fruit they use to make sloe gin,' adds Max. 'It's purplish brown and quite hairy under the microscope, which the stinkbug is not. But to the inexperienced eye, it would look very similar.' If it turns out to be a brown marmorated stink bug, the scientists request that it is captured in a small container and posted to the Museum or NIAB EMR. Images of suspected stink bug can also be emailed to Max or NIAB EMR or for confirmation.
DO NOT touch them !! That revolving rectal presidium goractum is likely to carry sporadic nodes that will transmit auriel disease which if ingested will, and I mean WILL, bring about a hapsodic sputum of the liver and end up with a near fatal murmuration of the outgoing throsis gland. FOR GOODNESS SAKE report this to the authorities NOW !!!!
Wish I watched a bit closer today. On my knees doing a bit of gardening this afternoon and I knelt on what I thought was a stone. Gave me a wee bit of pain. But when I looked closer I had knelt on a bee and it stung me. He obviously was as not very happy. First time I have ever been stung.
Saw a Sheff Weds........Sorry Massive dragon fly this aft on the TPT blnking thing wouldn't land though, Green n Black is was, scared me a bit
For anyone that is interested in this sort of thing... I emailed Max at the Natural History Museum (as suggested by Hooky Fella) with my photo and he identified them as the Parent Bug, a closely related species, but a harmless native. They are named for the parental care that they show to the eggs and small nymphs (hatchlings). He also mentioned that he'd never seen them clustered like that before. They're common in Silver Birch trees, of which I have three in my garden so I'm expecting to see more going forward, although these ones had moved on when I looked again this morning. Quite fascinating having some trees in the garden, the amount of wildlife they attract is incredible - except the green aphids, although I've purchased some ladybirds to deal with them fckers. https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/bugs/parent-bug.
We've had a couple in the garden, which we wouldn't normally have, but only a couple. What we have seen in huge numbers this year are hoverfly. A welcome sight too.
