Also known as a stink bug, presumably because of the bad smell they produce if you crush one. I actually find them quite hard to crush, they’re so well armored. And the odd one that I seen crushed didn’t seem to have a bad smell at all. Mind you I have a notoriously bad sense of smell.

This one was wandering around in our kitchen sink. Well maybe wandering is too strong a word. It would actually move an inch or two and then stand still for a long period of time.

Since it wasn’t moving much this seemed to be a good opportunity to bring out the macro lens. My first few attempts were terrible: blurry, out of focus, badly exposed. Then it occurred to me to try using the small built in flash on the A6000. This resulted in the shot above. I thought the flash would be very constrasty, but I guess the light bounced off the white side walls of the sink and to me produced a pleasing result.

Taken with a Sony A6000 and 7artisans 60mm f2.8 macro.