Nettle ground bug
The nettle ground bug is a small, shiny brown bug that loves stinging nettles. Its legs have stripes of dark and light, and its head is covered in long white hairs. Often you can find a whole crowd of them sitting together on one nettle.
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Fun facts
Grown-up bugs spend the winter hiding under tree bark or inside hollow plant stems.
A male and a female can stay joined together for 3 or 4 days when they mate.
The female lays her eggs in the ground near the nettles.
Its front legs each have a little spine on them.
Most asked questions about Nettle ground bug
?What does the nettle ground bug eat?
It lives on stinging nettles and feeds on them.
?How big is the nettle ground bug?
About 6 to 7 millimetres long, roughly as long as a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Heterogaster urticae
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Heterogastridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Heterogastridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, North America
Where the facts come from
- Heterogaster urticae (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 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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