Can anyone ID a beetle ?

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A very unusual post for a flashlight forum but with the immense collective knowledge here, someone must know the answer /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

We're finally getting some nice sunny weather here in England and while sitting in my garden enjoying a cold beer I have seen a few beetles walking around that I don't recognize or recall seeing in the past.

Here's a pic:

Anyone know what type of beetle my new visitors are ?

 

[AlphaTea]

Some places here in the New World call that a Stink bug.
Lemme see if I can find some info on English Stink Bugs...

 

[AlphaTea]

Got it.
This is a Elasmucha grisea (Parent Bug)
Common to most of Europe.
Second bug down on this site http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/insects/pentatomoidea.htm

 

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An answer within six minutes of posting, you can always count on the members of CPF /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Thanks AlphaTea /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif

 

[The_LED_Museum]

I knew it was a bug and not a beetle as soon as the photograph came up, but I see I got beaten in identifying it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Negeltu]

Aren't they also called shield bugs?

 

[The_LED_Museum]

Yes, they are called shield bugs. Because of their appearance, of course. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[idleprocess]

Shield bugs lack mouthparts and have an articulating, piercing, uh, proboscis (?) that they suck plant juices and the occasional unwary insect's innards with.

EDIT - "subject + predicate")