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    Last year I grew runner beans and towards the end of August/early September I found strange green beasties on there that I've never seen before nor been able to find in any books. It was a green beetle type thing (the same green as an aphid), about as big as a fingernail, it had a flatish hard body but it was shaped towards the back and it had two big feelers at the front. I couldn't see it initially, it was only when I was foraging towards the back that I noticed this large beastie and promptly withdrew my hand and sent my two young girls foraging in there instead. I pulled off what I saw and asked a few fellow gardners but none of us had ever seen it before. It didn't seem to do any damage so I wasn't too concerned but I have no idea what it was. I found one or two in the border after I'd pulled the beans down so I suspect I'll get them again this year. Have you any idea?

  • #2
    Not a vine weevil?? not heard of them on beans though..try googleing it to check!
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France

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    • #3
      No they're brown aren't they? Plus this had a wider body than pictures I've seen of weevils, this had a really funny shaped body, almost like a shield shape if that makes sense, really quite wide. I've never seen anything like it before.

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      • #4
        Hi MJB, I know the ones you mean, but I don't know what they're called. I've got them on my rhubarb but mine are a light brown colour
        Shortie

        "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

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        • #5
          I'm Guessing it was a sheild bug MJB

          http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile...shield_bug.asp

          Is this the beastie?
          ntg
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          Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
          A large group of professionals built the Titanic
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          • #6
            Oo.. that's mine but the wrong colour... Guess mine would be called brown sheild bugs instead
            Shortie

            "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

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            • #7
              THAT'S IT!! Thank you, I'll read up on it now. Not the most attractive of specimens, hey? Thanks for your help!
              MBJ

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              • #8
                Thanks for educating me. I now know the name of another bug in my garden.

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