All about insects 2024

Thanks SnappyMac 

Nicely done. Lovely colours 

A large shield bug of some sort. 

and some sort of emerald looking beetle thingy..,,

I think the emerald one could be a swollen thigh beetle Mr Kes, no idea on the shield bug thingie tho :o) Lovely shots

Billysdad said:

Well captured Mike. Very colourful ...

Thank you BD

The shield bug thingie, looks like one of these ...

Tortoise Bug Eurygaster testudinaria (Geoffroy, 1785)
This is another species which has been expanding its northerly UK range for a number of years. It reached Leicestershire in 2016, when recorded from Ketton Quarry (Nightingale, K.) and finally reached Nottinghamshire in May 2019, when Darren Matthews found and photographed one at Gedling CP, around a week after finding Nottinghamshire's first Brassica Bug at nearby Colwick CP. We are once again very grateful to Darren, for allowing us to use his photograph below right. Recorded from the Sherwood Forest NNR in May 2020.
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I found this in my sister's kitchen. She had the ab-dabs when I showed her the photo, so I told her I'd chucked it out ... I hadn't really, it ran back under the freezer ... 

I'm surprised it fitted under it BD  

Oh yes could be. Thanks PB