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Croft Castle drive, Autumn

Hilary Forbes

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MmmmmHilary looks mighty like a cockroach to me.  Yuk.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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That's no cockroach; that's a shield bug - the garden will be full of them at certain times of year: nothing like as pestiferous as cockroaches.  There are quite a few species - don't ask me what they are though.  
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Robert Jones, Napa

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatomidae Here you go: all explained.  
Croft Castle drive, Autumn

Hilary Forbes

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Thank you Robert for the info - yes it is a shield bug, it landed on my paper when I was out painting in woodland last summer.

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Thanks for the explain Robert,    I hate Cockroaches…  They used to stalk up the hospital corridor when I was on night duty in the sixties so we sprayed then with anaesthetic , then swept them up.  Shield bug , great. 
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Ashamed to say ( but not really ) we played a trick on a friend who was overnight in an old hospital ( Victorian, the RVI in Newcastle). We pretended to find a cockroach on his bed ( it was a rubber one). We aren’t in contact any more…..but not because of that😆

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Just had chance to sit down and quickly do something for today challenge.  I dislike cockroaches as well Sylvia, most of the places i was stationed at overseas were crawling with them, they were immune to  DDT and Flit Gun , size eight boot did a better job . It’s said that cockroaches survived the A bomb tests in the 1950/60 s  Not a cockroach, grasshopper or cricket .

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He is very pretty Paul.

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11/ Hands.

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ME - Copy

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