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Beware of the Flower Bug

Flower bugs come with a nasty bite; one of the garden's predators - this species #139 Deraeocoris flavilinea is actually (another) alien species, which has spread out from the Mediterranean, reaching UK for the first time only in 1996. They live up in the trees normally, eating aphids and other small insects.

Flower Bug: #139 Deraeocoris flavilinea