Hawthorn shield bug

The only insect around the apple crop was this hawthorne shield bug, who really didn’t want to leave, even after I’d picked it.

I don’t think they actually eat apples, but he did seem very attached to it – the name comes from their eating the red haws on hawthorne.

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