Citron bug
The citron bug is a long, dark brown bug with black and orange striped feelers. Its back legs are wide and flat, a bit like leaves, so it is called a leaf-footed bug. It sucks juice from many fruits and vegetables.
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Fun facts
The female lays her eggs in a neat chain of about 16 along a twig.
The young are reddish with dark spines and change their skin five times as they grow.
At first the young stay close together, later they spread out over the plant.
Its spit can make plant shoots shrivel up.
From egg to adult takes about nine or ten weeks.
Most asked questions about Citron bug
?What does the citron bug eat?
It sucks sap from many plants, like beans, passion fruit, citrus fruit, mango and avocado.
?How big is the citron bug?
About 18 millimetres long and 6 millimetres wide.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leptoglossus gonagra
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Coreidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Coreidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Passionvine bug, Squash bug
Where the facts come from
- Leptoglossus gonagra (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 Obsidian Soul. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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