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+{{ ::20240408-144800-3700-cropped.jpg?direct&300|Germander Speedwell (//Veronica chamaedrys//)}}
+====== 08 Apr 2024: Turning green ======
+Vegetation is growing rapidly around (and in!) Bishop's Pond.
+Here's a speedwell, probably Germander Speedwell (//Veronica chamaedrys//).
+==== ====
+And not just the plants are increasingly green.
+You may remember a News post on [[news:2024:0120_hibernating-shield-bugs]]
+which included a Common Green Shieldbug (//Palomena prasina//) which was into its brown winter coloration.
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+{{::20240408-142532-3680-800x600.jpg?direct&300 |}}
+Well, today we found a couple of them, both already in their summer green colour.
+At risk of seeming to be obsessed with shield bugs, here is one of them.
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+{{ ::20240408-143641-3694-cropped.jpg?direct&300|}}
+And here is another new species, Rhombic Leatherbug (//Syromastus rhombeus//),
+which is strictly speaking not a shieldbug as it belongs to a related family.
+==== More news items ====
+{{blog>news?5&linkonly&noform}}**