Rosy plant bug
Calocoris roseomaculatus
The rosy plant bug has pale, whitish wings with pretty pink and red markings. It also has a thin black stripe on its back. It lives in dry, sunny grassland in Europe.
Lives in
Most of Europe, in dry grassland
Length
6 to 8 mm (0.24 to 0.31 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It feeds on plants and does not hurt people.
What does it eat?
Both the grown-ups and the young ones feed on plants of the daisy and pea families, like kidney vetch and restharrow.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 22 seconds
How big is Rosy plant bug compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Rosy plant bug about 0.16 km/h (0.1 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
You can find the grown-up bugs from June until October.
2
Its young ones eat the very same plants as the grown-ups.
3
Scientists know two subspecies of it, which are slightly different local forms.
4
It belongs to the plant bugs, one of the biggest families of true bugs.
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Most asked questions about Rosy plant bug
?How big is the rosy plant bug?
It is 6 to 8 millimetres long.
?What does the rosy plant bug eat?
It feeds on plants of the daisy and pea families, like kidney vetch and restharrow.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Calocoris roseomaculatus
- Named by
- De Geer, 1773
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Miridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Miridae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Calocoris roseomaculatus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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