Green Shield Bug (Palomena prasina), originally uploaded by Pipsissiwa.
I do like invertebrate silhouettes. What you lose in details, you gain in beauty. I like to try to capture portraits of invertebrates, not just clear taxonomic images. These large green bugs are all over my garden in the summer. I remember discovering, as a child, that you don't pick them up. If you do, they have a nasty habit of oozing stinky yellow stuff all over you that will not wash off. I handle them now, but the trick is to let them walk onto you rather than grabbing.
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