Sunday, April 12, 2015

Firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus)


Yesterday Friedrich and I went for a stroll in our garden to take some flower picture. But he met someone else :-) : A Firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus).

In Middle-Europe there are only two species, P. apparatus and P. marinates, of firebug.
Since they eat the seeds of linden tress and mallows, they live commonly in large colonies at sunny places and beneath the trunk of linden trees.
Firebugs are harmless, but since their massive occurrence sometimes they are considered cumbersome.

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