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Sticker of Clouded plant bug
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Clouded plant bug

Neurocolpus nubilus
Eats: PlantsTrue bugs and cicadasGardens and meadows6 legs

The clouded plant bug is a small bug from North America that lives on plants. It is not fussy at all and visits many different plants for a drink. It sips plant juice through a mouth shaped like a tiny straw.

Lives in
North America, in fields, meadows and gardens
Top speed
about 0.2 km/h (0.12 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It is only interested in plants.
What does it eat?
It feeds on many plants, such as cotton, alfalfa, soybeans, clover, milkweed, nettles and burdock seed heads.
For real!Photo of Clouded plant bug
Picture by Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

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Fun facts

1

It feeds on farm plants like cotton, soybeans and alfalfa, and on wild plants like clover and nettles.

2

Like all true bugs, it has a beak-like mouth that pokes into plants to drink their juice.

3

It belongs to the plant bugs, a huge family of small bugs that live on plants.

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Most asked questions about Clouded plant bug

?What does the clouded plant bug eat?

Plant juice from many plants, like cotton, soybeans, clover, milkweed and nettles.

?Is the clouded plant bug harmful?

Not to people. It only feeds on plants.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Neurocolpus nubilus
Group
True bugs and cicadas
Family
Miridae
Classification
Insecta > Hemiptera > Miridae
Lives on
North America

Where the facts come from

  1. Neurocolpus nubilus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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