Cairngorms National Park. The cow wheat shieldbug was spotted in woodland by a field worker from the Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms partnership project.
The bug has a black body featuring two distinctive white spots.This is only the eighth ever recording of the bug in Scotland, with previous records being made between 1866 and 1989.
Four of the historic records have come from Strathspey, one from Perthshire (1879), one from Argyll and Bute (1890) and one from Loch Rannoch (1989).
This rare insect is considered to be nationally scarce across the UK, with worrying declines in the south-east of England over recent years.The bug relies on cow wheat as a food plant.
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