The juniper shield bug is a large green shield bug with distinctive pinkish-red markings on the corium.
The bug's traditional foodplant is juniper, with the larvae feeding on juniper berries. It has also adapted to use Lawson cypress as a host. In the United Kingdom it was formerly scarce and restricted largely to southern juniper woodlands but in recent years it has become common across southern and central England as a result of the widespread garden planting of juniper and cypress... more
Similar species: True Bugs
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And wow, thanks for the promotion! What a fun welcome. :) Posted 7 years ago
By the way, did you get here via @rmfelix ?
Even if not, you should definitely check out his amazing profile full of bugs from Portugal. Posted 7 years ago, modified 7 years ago
I am not really sure how I found this site, probably looking for an ID and eventually realized I might be welcome here too. But then it took at least a couple weeks to decide on a user name I could live with forever. :D Posted 7 years ago
And I feel so honored as I was looking at one of your photos, deciding if I should dare to comment on the ID, before I started posting some of my own. You take amazing photos. Posted 7 years ago
Thanks for the kind compliment! Please feel free to comment/correct as you please. BTW, I am a huge bug-lover and your photos are stunning! Welcome to JungleDragon! Posted 7 years ago
Welcome to JD, bugeyed! Looking forward to see some photos of yours from that beautiful country :D
Beautiful species intro, with a beautiful matching photo*
Saúde! :) Posted 7 years ago
Are you in PT now?
I am looking forward to having some time to pour through your photos to see if I can ID some of the others I have found. Then I can put them up too maybe. :) But, I also have some from a few other places.
This site seems a good way to occupy the time waiting for the interesting bugs to come out again (kind of tired of seeing just houseflies, fungus gnats, and carpet beetles :D). Posted 7 years ago