Broad damsel bug
The broad damsel bug is a small hunting bug that creeps through tall, wet grass. It has a sharp beak that it uses like a straw. It likes cool places better than most of its relatives.
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Fun facts
In Greenland it is the only damsel bug living where the Vikings once had their farms. Some scientists wonder if the Vikings brought it there long ago.
In the Alps it lives high up in the mountains, as high as 2200 metres.
It spends the winter as a tiny egg. The babies hatch in spring and grow into adults by summer.
Late in the year, only the females are still around.
In the United States it was found for the first time in 1989, in the state of Maine.
Most asked questions about Broad damsel bug
?Is the broad damsel bug dangerous?
No. It is a small bug that hunts insects and does not bother people.
?What does a damsel bug eat?
Other small insects. It catches them in the grass and drinks them with its beak.
?Where does the broad damsel bug live?
In the cool north of Europe, Asia and North America, in wet grassy places with sedges and rushes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nabis flavomarginatus
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Nabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Nabidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Nabis flavomarginatus (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 janet graham. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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