Andromeda lace bug
The andromeda lace bug is a tiny bug, only about 3 millimetres long, with wings that look like black and white lace. It even has little shiny gold highlights. It comes from Japan and lives on a garden shrub called the Japanese andromeda.
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Fun facts
Where it feeds, the leaves get pale, blotchy spots.
When there are very many of them, the shrub can drop lots of leaves and stop growing well.
It leaves dark droppings on the undersides of leaves.
Shrubs growing in full sun get hurt the most.
Most asked questions about Andromeda lace bug
?What does the andromeda lace bug do to plants?
It sucks juice from the leaves, which makes them blotchy and can make them fall off.
?How big is the andromeda lace bug?
It is only about 3 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stephanitis takeyai
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Tingidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Tingidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Stephanitis takeyai (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Bj.schoenmakers. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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