Chien Lee / Red Stink Bug (Pycanum rubeus) hatchlings cluster to amplify the effect of their aposematic warning coloration, Malaysia

MYN / Gil Wizen / Shield bug (Ventocoris falcatus) Central Coastal Plain, Israel Meetyourneighbours.net project

Kim Taylor / Rainbow Shield Bug (Calidea dregii) Endemic to Southern Africa.

MYN / Clay Bolt / Stink Bug Nymphs (Pentatomidae) three, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA, meetyourneighbours.net project

Thomas Marent / Red Stink Bug (Pycanum rubeus) nymph, Sepilok, Borneo, Malaysia

Kim Taylor / Shield Bug (Hemiptera) female laying eggs on grass stem. Namibia, Africa.

Duncan Murrell / Ocellated shield bug (Cantao ocellatus), Deniyaya, Sri Lanka.

Nick Upton / Green shield bug (Palomena prasina) positioning itself to sun on Philadelphus leaves in a garden, Wiltshire, England, UK, April.

Thomas Marent / Stink Bug (Pentatomidae) eggs, Putumayo, Colombia

Nick Upton / Tortoise bug (Eurygaster testudinaria) final instar nymph on a Knapweed flower bud, Green Lane Wood, Wiltshire, UK, July.

Andy Sands / Bishop's mitre shieldbug (Aelia acuminata) on grass seedhead, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, June

Philippe Clement / Green shield bug (Palomena prasina) nymph on leaf showing camouflage colours, France, August