Lychee giant stink bug
The lychee giant stink bug is a big yellowish brown bug shaped like a shield. It has bright red eyes. Its babies change colour as they grow, starting out bright red and then turning orange and blue grey.
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Fun facts
When many of them feed on one tree, the flowers and fruits drop off, so farmers see them as a pest.
The mother lays her pale green eggs in little groups of about 14.
Its babies, called nymphs, change their skin five times before they are grown up.
The females are a little bigger than the males.
Most asked questions about Lychee giant stink bug
?What does the lychee giant stink bug eat?
It sucks juice from the buds, flowers and fruits of lychee and longan trees.
?Why is it called a stink bug?
It has smell glands on its body and can let out a nasty smell.
?How big is the lychee giant stink bug?
It is about 2,4 to 2,8 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tessaratoma papillosa
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Tessaratomidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Tessaratomidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Tessaratoma papillosa (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 Charles Lam from Hong Kong , China.. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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