Citrus flatid planthopper
The citrus flatid planthopper is a small grey or brown bug with big yellow eyes. It holds its wings up along its sides like a little tent. Its babies are covered in fluffy white wax, so they look like tiny bits of cotton on plant stems.
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Fun facts
While it drinks sap, it squirts out extra sugar called honeydew. Bees collect it and turn it into honey.
The grown-ups like to feed together in groups.
A female lays about 100 eggs, usually tucked into tree bark.
The eggs spend the winter in the bark and hatch the next spring.
Its wings have little whitish spots on them.
Most asked questions about Citrus flatid planthopper
?Is the citrus flatid planthopper harmful?
Not to people. But it sucks sap from many crops and garden plants and can damage them.
?What are the white fluffy bugs on my plants?
They may be young citrus flatid planthoppers, which are covered in tufts of white wax.
?How big is the citrus flatid planthopper?
The adults are about 5.5 to 8 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Metcalfa pruinosa
- Named by
- Say, 1830
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Flatidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Flatidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, South America, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Metcalfa pruinosa (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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