Harvested some of the Martock broad beans, a heritage variety, that I grew in the garden. They have only just started to get chocolate spot. The bean pods are about finger length, though are slightly bigger than my fingers both in length and girth. They were tasty in a rice dish I cooked yesterday from a recipe in Australian Women’s Weekly’s Rice Cookbook.
Managed to take a better picture or two of my aphid-eater. I saw one again today with a greenfly. The insect book I have is Collins Pocket Guide: Insects of Britain & Western Europe. I wonder if it could be is Pithanus maerkeli, a mirid bug, but am not convinced after searching via Google images and being taken to Wikipedia in Norwegian.
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