Cinnamon Bug

This is a hemipteran bug from the Rhopalidae family: the Cinnamon or Black & Red Squash bug, Corizus hyoscyami. It is pretty common but can be confused with other red and black bugs like Firebugs, which are rare here but common on the continent.

Forest Bug

This is, I think, the first bug on the blog. Bugs differ from beetles in having a piercing beak, wings with membranous tips that overlap when not flying. They are the True bugs: the Hemiptera and there are 50,000 to 80,000 species. This is a shield bug. They belong to the sub-order Heteroptera (which accounts for around 40,000 species) and are sometimes referred to as the Typical bugs.
The Forest Bug, Pentatoma rufipes, belongs to the family Pentatomidae, so-called because of their five-segmented antennae (compared with the four found in most Heteropterans). It is common throughout Britain