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I'm trying to identify a type of beetle my son and I have seen a couple of times on the way to and from his school.
It looked just like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_stink_bug but these are only supposed to exist in North America as far as I can see.
The ones we've seen have a brown tail end on top which is red tail-end underneath.
So, as you are all intelligent and helpful, can you tell us what we keep seeing?
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:04, archived)
Nevermind.
Found it.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:05, archived)
what flavour was it?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:05, archived)

www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/wildlifegarden/atoz/g/greenshieldbug.aspx
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:11, archived)
wow
There does seem to be a few weird bugs around at the moment
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:13, archived)

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3815833.stm
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:15, archived)
interesting
I am choc full of painkillers right now. Might be a good time to ask for money.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:19, archived)
give me money
very very much money
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:37, archived)
You can use the donate button down the side of this:
baldmonkeystuff.co.uk/dear%20baldmonkey/
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:42, archived)

"said curator of beetles, Max Barclay" :)
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 22:00, archived)

Proper job that, nice one Max
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 22:01, archived)
didn't they used to make stamps out of them?
whoever "they" were
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:25, archived)
I've seen those before, they are awesome.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:33, archived)
If you squeeze them they make a hissing noise
Try it
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:50, archived)
where is cr3? i need him to internet me up, lazy purple haired freak boy that he is

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 21:28, archived)
It's a Mini Adventure!
bit of a shit one though
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:07, archived)
Just like the adverts.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:12, archived)
Squinny Back-bencher more like

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:14, archived)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSQUfTBcOu4
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:08, archived)
it's a weevil

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:10, archived)
Are we having a Springwatch evening?
because it's summer now, so Chris Packham doesn't give a shit about your beetle.
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:15, archived)
Chris Packham doesn't give a shit about any of us, what a cunt

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:35, archived)
The really wild show was a lie.

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:39, archived)
It was really wild when Stracham got her tits out after filming and terry nutkins stuck his half digit up her chuff

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:48, archived)
And then that guy out of Street Fighter II joined in
img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00964/SNA13PACK4-682_964961a.jpg
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:52, archived)
Is Stracham
The deformed offspring of Packham and Strachan raised in the wilderness?
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:54, archived)
Raised by meerkats
true story
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:56, archived)
Yeah, but he's come on leaps and bounds, The Transporter wasn't too bad a film

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 20:56, archived)
there are no bugs
you've taken too much Substance D
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 21:12, archived)
If there are no bugs then what have I been filling all these jam jars with?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 21:16, archived)
corns

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 21:19, archived)
i hate you, you have sent me on a path i never cared about that has led to me being out smarted, you fucker

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 21:30, archived)
Are you still on this bitcoin gibberish?

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 21:32, archived)
well it started with tor, then i2p, then he chucked in brit coin, now it appears i need privoxy to work, now i have bad socks, i'm lost in a world of cyber bollocks :(

(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 21:34, archived)
last night I was watching telly and something small and black moved very quickly from the fridge across the kitchen floor
but it was too fast for a mouse or roach, and it didn't seem to have legs or any discernible body parts
I thought I'd imagined it but half an hour later it went back in the opposite direction.

I don't know what to make of that at all
(, Wed 22 Jun 2011, 23:20, archived)