Heather Bug Rhacognathus punctatus
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This is a scarce species, even where it occurs in it's heathland habitat. It is likely that the Heather Bug is completely confined to Budby South Forest in Nottinghamshire. It was also a species which we have searched for, for several years, but eventually found two adults and a nymph in early August 2009.
     
 
     
 
 
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