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Small plant; spiny-toothed leaves, blue-green in colour on stout stems.
Black, with both anterior and posterior suckers.
Caterpillar stout, hairy and approximately 5cm long.
A cone-shaped flower spike which becomes more cylindrical where the flowers ...
A vivid purple-violet flower whose lip is marked with dark spots and lines.
Forewings are uniformly green-brown with black puncturation.
Elytral pattern varies,but always with 2 pale cross bars
Garden Shield Bug Forest Bug Pentatoma Rufipes
Upperwings orange with brown margins with a few pale orange spots
Entirely black legs (distinguishes it from other Sand wasps) Just under an inch ...
This plant only grows in 4 years and 4 years!
