Trivial plant bug
The trivial plant bug is a small bug that loves olive trees. Its colours change a lot: females are often yellow and green, while males can be red and black. It drinks from plants with a mouth shaped like a tiny straw.
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Fun facts
The back of its neck shield usually has four black spots: two in the middle and two on the sides.
It has only one family of babies each year.
It spends the winter as an egg, hidden in cracks in the bark.
Its eggs hatch at the end of winter, just as spring is starting.
Most asked questions about Trivial plant bug
?What does the trivial plant bug eat?
Grown-ups eat olive buds and flowers. Young ones eat weeds like nettles.
?Is the trivial plant bug dangerous?
No, it is harmless to people. It is only a problem for olive and citrus farmers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Closterotomus trivialis
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Miridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Miridae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Closterotomus trivialis (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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