The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·243755SpeciesInsecta218 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies
  7. ›True Bugs
  8. ›Cimicomorph Bugs
  9. ›Miroidea
  10. ›Plant Bugs
  11. ›Mirinae
  12. ›Mirini
  13. ›Lygus
Western Tarnished Plant Bug
Plate 1 of 9. (c) dlbowls, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by dlbowls · via iNaturalist

Western Tarnished Plant Bug

Lygus hesperus

The Western tarnished plant bug (Lygus hesperus) is a serious pest of cotton, strawberries, and seed crops such as alfalfa. In the state of California alone the bug causes US$30 million in damage to cotton plants each year, and at least US$40 million in losses to the state's strawberry industry.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Lygus hesperus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 243755.