New Zealand vegetable bug
The New Zealand vegetable bug is a green shield bug shaped like a little oval shield. Its back is covered in tiny pits, and its edges are a paler green. It sucks juice from plants with a mouth like a drinking straw.
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Fun facts
Its body is about 15 to 17 millimetres long.
When it was first described, its size was given in lines, an old unit of measure: 7 to 8 lines.
The tips of its wings are see-through, and its legs and feelers are green.
Its mouth part is dull orange with a black tip.
Most asked questions about New Zealand vegetable bug
?What does the New Zealand vegetable bug eat?
It sucks juice from plants, such as Coprosma, Griselinia and Myoporum.
?Where does the New Zealand vegetable bug live?
In Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and Timor.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Glaucias amyoti
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Pentatomidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Pentatomidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia
- Also known as
- Australasian green shield bug
Where the facts come from
- Glaucias amyoti (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 Mark Tutty. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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