Red-spotted aster mirid
Polymerus basalis
The red-spotted aster mirid is a small plant bug from North and Central America. It has a long beak that it pokes into plants. It sips the juice inside.
Lives in
North America and Central America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is small and does not bite people or sting.
What does it eat?
It sucks juice from plants with its pointed beak.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Red-spotted aster mirid 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 belongs to the plant bugs, the biggest family of true bugs in the world.
2
There are two slightly different forms of it.
3
Like all true bugs, it has a beak like a drinking straw instead of chewing jaws.
you asked
Most asked questions about Red-spotted aster mirid
?Is the red-spotted aster mirid dangerous?
No. It is a small, harmless plant bug.
?Where does the red-spotted aster mirid live?
In North America and Central America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polymerus basalis
- Named by
- Reuter, 1897
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Miridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Miridae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Polymerus basalis (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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