Bronze orange bug
The bronze orange bug is a big, shiny Australian stink bug, about 2.5 centimetres long. It starts out pale green, turns orange and ends up a glowing bronze colour. When it feels scared, it squirts a stinky liquid at its enemies.
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Fun facts
It can squirt its stinky spray at a target up to 60 centimetres away.
Its eggs are bright green little balls, laid in a group under a leaf.
The newly hatched babies are see-through pale green with orange eyes, and they huddle together next to their eggs.
Assassin bugs and tiny wasps are among the animals that hunt it.
Most asked questions about Bronze orange bug
?What does the bronze orange bug eat?
It sucks sap from citrus trees, which can make the fruit fall off.
?How big is the bronze orange bug?
A grown-up bug is about 25 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Musgraveia sulciventris
- Named by
- Stål, 1863
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Tessaratomidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Tessaratomidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Stink bug
Where the facts come from
- Musgraveia sulciventris (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Graham Wise from Brisbane, Australia. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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