#4046 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Grass bug

🇳🇱 Gewone smallijf ·Stenodema laevigata

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Tero Linjama · CC0
3. © Kees · CC0
4. © André MIQUET · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jens Ullenius · CC0
7. © Ryzhkov Oleg · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Stenodema laevigatum , or sometimes Stenodema laevigata (also called Grass bug ), is a carnivorous species of bug from Miridae family. The species have a gray to brown elongated body, with the eyes located backwards in the head. Sometimes they might come in green colour. 39 in) in length, which makes it a rather big species of its kind. They are common in the United Kingdom, and throughout the rest of Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 64iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,232iNaturalist 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).