#4175 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Small Milkweed Bug

Lygaeus kalmii

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Jesse Rorabaugh · CC0
2. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Larry Clarfeld · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © gryazniygrib · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © dlbowls · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Denis Doucet · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
8. © Shuk Han (Nancy) Mak · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Lygaeus kalmii , known generally as the small milkweed bug or common milkweed bug , is a species of seed bug in the family Lygaeidae. It is found in Central America and North America.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 42,860iNaturalist observations

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).