Nick Upton / Meadow plant bug (Leptopterna dolabrata) female laying an egg on a grass blade in a meadow, Wiltshire, UK, June.

Nick Upton / Meadow plant bug (Leptopterna dolabrata) on grass blade, Cornwall, UK, June.

Nick Upton / Rhopalid bug / Henbane bug (Corizus hyoscyami) a toxic species with warning colouration on on Hoary plantain (Plantago media) in grassland meadow, St. Catherine's valley, Bath and North-east Somerset,...

Rod Williams / Meadow plant bug (Leptopterna dolabrata) Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, London, UK. June.

Nick Upton / Red ant (Myrmica rubra) collecting honeydew from Black bean aphids (Aphis fabae) on a Creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense) stem, chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, July.

Nigel Cattlin / Meadow / long-horned grasshopper (Conocephalus longipennis) pest of Rice (Oryza sativa) and predator of Rice bugs and stem borers, Philippines

Kim Taylor / Meadow plant bug (Leptopterna dolabrata) on flowering grass, Surrey, England

Nick Upton / Red-spotted plant bug (Deraeocoris ruber), a predator of aphids, foraging on a Woolly thistle (Cirsium eriophorum) flowerbud in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Meadow plant bug (Leptopterna dolabrata) nymph well camouflaged on a flowering Quaking grass (Briza media), in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, May

Nick Upton / Meadow plant bug (Leptopterna dolabrata) nymph well camouflaged on a flowering Quaking grass (Briza media), in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, May

Nick Upton / Large knapweed aphid (Uroleucon jaceae) colony feeding on Greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa) stem, chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, May.

Neil Challis / Female Meadow plant bug (Leptopterna dolabrata), on grass stem walking out of shot, Finemere Wood, Buckinghamshire, UK, July.