Southern Green Shieldbug Nymph (4th Instar)

Great, thank you :D

another useful link http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteropter...

my friend had some really cool pocket books with the most often bugs of all kind that's maybe better cause you have it your pocket on the terrain.. but cicada- yes, that's a good investment, they are soo tricky, all those little veins on they wings...I mean, if you would put it that way it's pretty easy to spend a lot of money :D! I am always asking myself what if I'm gonna lear everything on memory one day and I won't need than book...what I'm gonna do with a book ;D probably impossible though! Tnx, the worse thing is that my nightmare was always encouraged by everyone, I remember that even my granny used to say: "andrea, you should always look twice at the fig before you bit it, one day I didn't and there was a stink bug and I had to swallow that taste" -_- tnx all now I really love them-not

Thanks for your answer! :D Yeah, I know bugguide.net but until now didn't pay much attention to it. But it could be an easier approach to find what I'm searching for, after all they show thumbnails of the species. Finding the genus on bugguide and then digging deeper on koleopterologie.de could be an alternative to click-click-click-a-million-times-FINALLY-that's-the-one! :-p

I'm actually thinking of spending ~70 bucks on a cicada-book (ALL cicadas of Germany with photos, male, female and larvae http://bit.ly/11gFChJ What an expensive hobby this becomes, since my partner just spent 40 bucks on a book about ants :-p), and was looking for something similar about heteroptera but wasn't lucky yet. Hoped you have perhaps a secret hint ;)

And I feel really sorry for the nightmare-experience with this bug *harhar* :D

not once learned and forgotten knowledge, just and illustration from a book, plus this a rather common species here- unfortunately (!!!!) and this bug is my worse NIGHTMARE :D honestly, I hated it since I was very little when my bro used to chase me with them, I don't know much about other Pentatomidae though, the majority I just found them in eol but searching the whole database...but apart from that other parts of my bug-knowledge are present due to the fact that I have took some workshops for talented kids (elementary school kids) when I was teaching them some other things in free time I would join the group for biology with kids and pick everything from my great friend who is totally obsessed with bugs and lives in a place more like an terrarium than a place for humans :D I guess....I have no easy answer to your question....omg.... there is also an american website that's helpful at least to determine some genus http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740 and then I search for what's found in Europe

May I ask a question: how do you know it's the 4th instar? Literature (book), a good website, once-learned-and-never-forgotten-knowledge (;))? I only know one website for bugs ( http://www.koleopterologie.de/heteropter... ) which is really good but often a pain in the a.. to use. You have to know beforehand in which family to look or else you have to click through hundreds and hundreds of species - and even if you know the family it's still lots of clicking since there are no thumbnails, only names. And lastly it makes no difference between the instars. I could live with that but sometimes it would be interesting to just know/learn such things.
Thus it would be interesting to know: how do you identify bugs?