Stinging nettles beginning to show their catkin-like flowers.
Ha ! What's this on a nettle leaf?
With the help of my trust Michael Chinery insect book
and the internet, I've identified it as .. .. ..
.. .. .. Corizus hyoscyami, the black and red squash bug, or more colourfully, the Cinnamon Bug. Four black spots and a black triangle with an orangey-red oval in the middle. At the back the overlapping ends of the wings show up as black too.
Being a true bug it has no jaws but a rostrum like a hyperdermic syringe to suck juice out of a variety of plants.
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