Alfalfa plant bug
The alfalfa plant bug is a long, slim bug that can be light green or pale brown. Its feelers are almost as long as its whole body. It loves alfalfa and cotton plants, and farmers are not happy to see it.
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Fun facts
The males are a little bigger than the females.
Its babies, called nymphs, are green with red eyes and have no wings yet.
A mother can lay up to 300 eggs inside the stems of plants. Most eggs wait through the winter and hatch in spring.
It came to Canada and the USA about 100 years ago and spread far, because it likes cool weather.
Most asked questions about Alfalfa plant bug
?What does the alfalfa plant bug eat?
It sucks juice from alfalfa, cotton, beans and other plants, especially ones with flowers.
?How big is an alfalfa plant bug?
About 8 to 9 millimetres long, a bit smaller than a fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Adelphocoris lineolatus
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Miridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Miridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Lucerne bug
Where the facts come from
- Adelphocoris lineolatus (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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