Bug FAQPlant Bug
Megaloceroea recticornis · Order: Hemiptera · Family: Miridae
Also called: Long Thin Plant Bug
Adults are 8 to 10 mm long and are green in colour. Both adults and larvae feed on grasses such as meadow foxtail, red fescue, timothy and yarrow.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
The bug is green.
Source: Wikipedia
Size
Adults measure 8 to 10 mm in length.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 32 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Oregon, Washington, Michigan, California, New York, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: introduced in Canada; introduced in United States. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Miridae)
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Lygus pratensisLygus pratensisDamages trees, gardens or cropsSources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaloceroea_recticornis
Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia
Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.