Spiked Shieldbug
Taken at Baron's Haugh on 15th August 2019 using Panasonic Lumix LX5 in macro mode.
Fact File

Spiked Shieldbug.
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Local names: 		Picromerus bidens.
Hemiptera.
Pentatomidae.
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 		Larvae of other insects, especially  leaf bugs, beetles, aphids and caterpillars.

12 - 13.5 mm.
Body colour is quite variable, generally light to dark brown or bluish, with red-brown antennae and legs and two unmistakable thorn-like brown projections on the sides of the pronotum 
Deciduous and mixed forests, heathland, gardens, chalk downland and damp flower-rich meadows.
July - August.