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Northern fruit bug

Carpocoris fuscispinus
Eats: PlantsTrue bugs and cicadasForests and woods6 legs

The northern fruit bug is a shield bug with sharp pointy shoulders. It can be greyish yellow or reddish brown, sprinkled with tiny black dots. It has black feelers.

Lives in
All over Europe, mostly in woods and their edges
Length
1.1 to 1.4 cm (0.43 to 0.55 in)
Top speed
about 0.22 km/h (0.14 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. Like other shield bugs, it can make a smell if you bother it.
What does it eat?
It sucks juice from many plants, most often from plants like wild carrot and daisies.
For real!Photo of Northern fruit bug
Picture by Quartl. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Northern fruit bug about 1.4 cm long (0.55 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)
as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 16 seconds

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cool stuff

Fun facts

1

Its pointy shoulders are sharper in summer than in autumn.

2

The grown-ups sleep through the winter and come out again in spring.

3

You can see the grown-ups from June to October.

you asked

Most asked questions about Northern fruit bug

?Is the northern fruit bug dangerous?

No. It is harmless to people.

?How big is the northern fruit bug?

It is about 1.1 to 1.4 cm long.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Carpocoris fuscispinus
Named by
Boheman, 1851
Group
True bugs and cicadas
Family
Pentatomidae
Classification
Insecta > Hemiptera > Pentatomidae
Lives on
Europe

Where the facts come from

  1. Carpocoris fuscispinus (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 Quartl. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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