#4001 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Common Nettle Flower Bug
🇳🇱 Streepdijblindwants ·Plagiognathus arbustorum
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what is it?
Plagiognathus arbustorum is a species of insects in the family Miridae, the plant bugs....
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
- Spotted 142 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 6,973 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794 (232 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Nettle Flower Bug
- Nederlands
- Streepdijblindwants
- scientific name
- Plagiognathus arbustorum
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Miridae
- sightings in NL
- 142
- sightings in Europe
- 4,386
- sightings worldwide
- 6,973
- GBIF records in NL
- 12,512
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1794 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Miridae
#3957 📷 10Three Spotted Nettle Bug
🇳🇱 Brandnetelblindwants
Liocoris tripustulatus
👀 470 in NL
#3959 📷 10trivial plant bug
🇳🇱 Mediterrane prachtblindwants
Closterotomus trivialis
👀 436 in NL
#3962 📷 10Red-spotted Plant Bug
🇳🇱 Rode halsbandwants
Deraeocoris ruber
👀 377 in NL
#3966 📷 7handsome plant bug
🇳🇱 Voorjaarseikenblindwants
Harpocera thoracica
👀 352 in NL
#3973 📷 10Striped Oak Bug
🇳🇱 Gestreepte eikenblindwants
Rhabdomiris striatellus
👀 292 in NL
#3991 📷 10Bonte geelschild
Campyloneura virgula
👀 193 in NL
#3993 📷 7streaked plant bug
🇳🇱 Geribde prachtblindwants
Miris striatus
👀 168 in NL
#3995 📷 10four-spotted plant bug
🇳🇱 Gele viervlekwants
Dryophilocoris flavoquadrimaculatus
👀 158 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 204590, Wikidata Q10632626, GBIF 5152968, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.