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Bos dias! Es viernes, como buena señora despistada que soy, no sé que toca hoy, ventanas, puertas o qué más da! Lo que sea pero hay que participar, cuantas buenas ideas, proyectos y fotos se pueden disfrutar por aquí! Gracias! 👏👊🏼👌
Me pasa que tengo taaaantas fotos, que paso tiempo seleccionando las que más me gustan, antes de decidirme a publicarlas. 👵👵👵
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Pasad buen día!
Sed felices!
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Un vecino del jardín. Interesante y pequeña. Le voy a llamar Paquita, seguramente si pudiera hablar, me diría quita, quita o dejame en paz!

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It's mad out there – lots of new species in the garden, but many of them proving photographically elusive in the warm, sunny conditions 😬

But it's only mid-April – there's time ... 🕰️👊

Among the cooperative ones: a very pretty juniper shield bug (Cyphostethus tristriatus; 🇩🇪 Buntrock [meaning "colourful skirt" 🙂]).

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A shield bug sitting on a leaf, seen from the front and above. The bug has a mostly dark green head and pronutum, with small wrinkles and dimples. The eyes are grey-ish, and the antennae are light green with red-brown ends. The scutellum is long and a mix of green and yellow. The wing cases are red-brown with black spots, and the wings themselves near the end of the abdomen and clear, with a little orange. The legs are light green.

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A shield bug sitting on a leaf, seen side-on and above. The bug has a mostly dark green head and pronutum, with small wrinkles and dimples. The eyes are grey-ish, and the antennae are light green with red-brown ends. The scutellum is long and a mix of green and yellow. The wing cases are red-brown with black spots, and the wings themselves near the end of the abdomen and clear, with a little orange. The legs are light green.

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A shield bug sitting on a leaf, seen from the behind and above. The bug has a mostly dark green head and pronutum, with small wrinkles and dimples. The eyes are grey-ish, and the antennae are light green with red-brown ends. The scutellum is long and a mix of green and yellow. The wing cases are red-brown with black spots, and the wings themselves near the end of the abdomen and clear, with a little orange. The legs are light green.

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From the garden today, something rather rare, I believe 🙂

It's a leaf-rolling sawfly, genus Pamphilius, but many of the more common ones are not good matches.

After much searching, I think I've found it – the belted rose spinner (P. inanitus; 🇩🇪 Rosengespinstblattwespe).

Only five prior observations in Germany on iNaturalist 😱

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A highly-coloured sawfly seen from above on a green rose leaf. The fly has a yellow and black head, with a ruddier colour below the eyes, and brown antennae. There are yellow patches on either side of the head towards the rear. The thorax is black with a strong yellow rim at the front, and the legs are all yellow. The abdomen is firstly ruddy, then black, with a hint of a yellow tip. The wings are clear, but with very strong, thick, prominent black veins, plus small yellow patches on the sides.

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