Red-spotted plant bug (Deraeocoris ruber) foraging on a Woolly thistle (Cirsium eriophorum) in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, August.

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Red-spotted plant bug (Deraeocoris ruber) a predator of aphids foraging on a Woolly thistle (Cirsium eriophorum) flowerbud in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, August.

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Size: 4717px × 3145px
Location: Wiltshire, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Upton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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