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onehoserose

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Sep 5, 2010 6:09 PM

Identify please

Can you identify this insect please? It was on the outside of my window and I had to get it onto my hand to be photographed. Its body was about an inch long and varying shades of brown with silvery white neck, wings, and hind legs?

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Bird Wocha

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Sep 5, 2010 9:54 PM (in response to onehoserose)
Re: Identify please

Hi there, could it be a seed bug?
Scolopostethus puberulus

(Lygaeidae)

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- Bird Wocha
  
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  Sep 5, 2010 10:42 PM (in response to Bird Wocha)
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  Or even better id possibility but more worryingly.... check out, Western Conifer Seed Bug
  
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  Sep 5, 2010 11:04 PM (in response to Bird Wocha)
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  It is a bug, but is Leptoglossus occidentalis - Western Conifer Seed Bug. It's an introduced species from the USA:
  http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Coreidae/leptoglossus_occidentalis.html
  
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Sep 6, 2010 9:00 PM (in response to onehoserose)
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Thanks guys, very helpful. Is this bug causing a problem or danger to any of our native species?

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