Spotted plant bug
The spotted plant bug is a small brown bug that lives on plants all over Europe. It drinks plant juice through a mouth like a tiny straw. Its babies look different from the grown-ups: they are green or yellowish green.
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Fun facts
Its babies are green or yellowish green. By July they have grown into brown adults.
In late summer the female lays her eggs in small cracks in woody plant stems.
It lives in almost all of Europe, but not on far islands like Iceland, the Azores or Malta.
Most asked questions about Spotted plant bug
?What does the spotted plant bug eat?
It sucks juice from plants such as clover, nettles, thistles and chamomile.
?How big is the spotted plant bug?
About 6 to 7 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Closterotomus fulvomaculatus
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Miridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Miridae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Closterotomus fulvomaculatus (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 Sarefo. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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