This striking-looking streaked plant bug, Miris striatus, hitched a ride on my shorts as we walked through the wooded fringe of Brodsworth Hall gardens on Sunday.
It’s a bug, not a beetle, so it has piercing mouthparts, which it uses to suck aphids, moth larvae and leaf beetles but it can also feed on young leaves and unripe fruits. In Britain it’s often found on hawthorn or oak.