#3948 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Forest Bug

🇳🇱 Roodpootschildwants ·Pentatoma rufipes

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Jon J. Laysell · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Alexey Zakharinskij · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Alexey Zakharinskij · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Aleks Lund. · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Anneke · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © pimyoung · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The forest bug or red-legged shieldbug ( Pentatoma rufipes ) is a species of shield bug in the family Pentatomidae....

base stats

NL sightings 1,123iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 49,247iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 1,123 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #7 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
49,247 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).