Handsome plant bug
The handsome plant bug is a small bug that lives on oak trees. It can be black, brown or orange, and the tips of its wings are black with white around them. Grown-ups live for only about one month in spring.
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Fun facts
Its eggs wait about 10 months before the babies hatch.
The boys look different from the girls. They have a longer body, longer legs and a fat second part on each feeler.
The babies are reddish or pinkish white and covered in dark hairs.
Boys are drawn to bright lights at night and often end up in moth traps.
Most asked questions about Handsome plant bug
?What does the handsome plant bug eat?
Mostly oak buds, oak juice, pollen and nectar, but sometimes it also eats small insects like aphids.
?How big is the handsome plant bug?
It is about 6 to 7 millimetres long. Girls are a little bigger than boys.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Harpocera thoracica
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Miridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Miridae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Harpocera thoracica (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 Sandy Rae. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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