Pinecone bug
Gastrodes grossipes
The pinecone bug is a small bug that lives on pine trees. It is found in most of Europe and all the way across Asia to Siberia.
Lives in
Most of Europe and across Asia to Siberia, on Scots pine
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
It feeds on Scots pine trees.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Pinecone bug about 0.2 km/h (0.12 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives on just one kind of tree, the Scots pine.
2
It is a true bug, which means its mouth is shaped like a tiny drinking straw.
3
It lives almost everywhere in Europe, but not in the far north.
you asked
Most asked questions about Pinecone bug
?What does the pinecone bug eat?
It feeds on Scots pine trees.
?Where does the pinecone bug live?
In most of Europe, except the far north, and across Asia to Siberia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gastrodes grossipes
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Rhyparochromidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Rhyparochromidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Pine cone bug
Where the facts come from
- Gastrodes grossipes (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 James K. Lindsey. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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