#4170 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Eastern Boxelder Bug
🇳🇱 Boxelder bug ·Boisea trivittata
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Erik Danielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © klips · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Susan Blayney · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Stephen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © rlewis1368 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Alfonso Benítez-Mora · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Rich Hansen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
The boxelder bug ( Boisea trivittata ) is a North American species of true bug. It is found primarily on boxelder trees, as well as maple and ash trees. 49 in) long with a dark brown or black colouration, relieved by red wing veins and markings on the abdomen; nymphs are bright red.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 61,615 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1825 (201 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Eastern Boxelder Bug
- Nederlands
- Boxelder bug
- scientific name
- Boisea trivittata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Rhopalidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 61,615
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1825 by Thomas Say
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#3990 📷 10hypericum rhopalid
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Rhopalus subrufus
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 53227, Wikidata Q4951659, GBIF 2050244, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.