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Common Gum Tree Shield Bug

Poecilometis patruelis (Eumecopus patruelis)

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Very hot day. At the base of a gum tree. Seemed to be panicked so may have fallen from branches in the wind and been returning

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raining stink bugs, there is the experience every naturalist wants to avoid
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PublishedFebruary 18, 2013

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