Western conifer seed bug?! in Hastings
31st August 2008, SundayWhilst checking the moth trap last night to see what insects had come in I heard a loud buzzing round my ear and then a thud on the top of the trap. When I looked down the largest Coreid bug I’ve ever seen was present wandering around the trap.
I believe it to be a Western Conifer Seed Bug Leptoglossus occidentalis, a North American species that was introduced into Europe in Italy in 1999 and is now spreading throughout Europe. The first record for Britain was in 2007 in Weymouth.