Common flathorn plant bug
The common flathorn plant bug is a small dark bug with pale green legs. Its feelers look really strange, because one part of each is wide and flat. Its young ones are reddish and have the same funny feelers.
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Fun facts
Its eggs spend the winter tucked inside young twigs.
The young bugs hatch in May and are grown up by June.
It likes hawthorn, alder, hazel, oak, nettles and tansy.
It lives in much of Europe, but not in Finland or the Baltic countries.
Most asked questions about Common flathorn plant bug
?What does the common flathorn plant bug eat?
Both small animals like aphids and mites, and plant juices, nectar and buds.
?Why is it called a flathorn?
Because part of each feeler is wide and flat, a bit like a flat horn.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Heterotoma planicornis
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Miridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Miridae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
Where the facts come from
- Heterotoma planicornis (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 TristramBrelstaff. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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