Southern small milkweed bug
Lygaeus reclivatus
The southern small milkweed bug is a seed bug from North and Central America. Like all true bugs, it has a mouth shaped like a tiny straw, which it pokes into plants to drink.
Lives in
North and Central America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
It is a seed bug, so it sucks the juice out of plant seeds.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Southern small milkweed 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 belongs to the seed bugs, a family of bugs that feed on seeds.
2
It has two subspecies, named by a scientist called Say in 1825 and 1831.
3
Like all insects, it has six legs and a body in three parts.
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Most asked questions about Southern small milkweed bug
?Where does the southern small milkweed bug live?
In North America and Central America.
?Is the southern small milkweed bug dangerous?
No. It feeds on plants and is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lygaeus reclivatus
- Named by
- Say, 1825
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Lygaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Lygaeidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Lygaeus reclivatus (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 gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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