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Eurydema oleracea
The rape bug has a shiny, flat dark-coloured body about 5–7 millimetres (0.20–0.28 in) long and 4 millimetres (0.16 in) wide. The species has a dark ground colour which is overlain with red, yellow, cream, white or orange markings.
Meadowland
In young adults these spots are yellow but change to white or red in older bugs. The colour of the abdomen changes at the same time from buff to black. It moults five times and the adults and nymphs live quite openly on plants. Adults overwinter, hibernating in leaf debris at the edge of woods or in bushes. There is one generation in the northern part of their range and two in the south. Among cultivated crops the bugs damage cabbage, radish, turnip, rutabaga, horseradish and rape.
Well, that sounds like fun! A lot of bug-stories, pizza and beer haha! I guess i'll bring dessert as well!
Hey Tina, I got invitation from Sckel to eat Pizza ! So pizza needs to be divided by 3 now :P
I think the Swedish language is better than English when it comes to bugs, you can call everything that looks lika a bug a "bagge" and that is that... But I take every chance I have to celebrate! Ill bring beer if you heat up that pizza :)
Yay! you no longer confuse bugs with beetles. We could celebrate, but there is only one small piece of pizza asleep in my freezer.
Spotted on Sep 8, 2013
Submitted on Sep 9, 2013
