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Rape bug
Eurydema oleracea
49.8614, 19.4418
Field Notes
Description:
The rape bug has a shiny, flat dark-coloured body about 5–7 millimetres (0.20–0.28 in) long and 4 millimetres (0.16 in) wide. The species has a dark ground colour which is overlain with red, yellow, cream, white or orange markings.
Habitat:
Meadowland
Notes:
In young adults these spots are yellow but change to white or red in older bugs. The colour of the abdomen changes at the same time from buff to black. It moults five times and the adults and nymphs live quite openly on plants. Adults overwinter, hibernating in leaf debris at the edge of woods or in bushes. There is one generation in the northern part of their range and two in the south. Among cultivated crops the bugs damage cabbage, radish, turnip, rutabaga, horseradish and rape.
Reference Links:
Eurydema oleracea
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