Bug FAQTaedia scrupea
Taedia scrupea · Order: Hemiptera · Family: Miridae
Taedia scrupea measures about 6 to 7.5 mm long. It lives in Central America and North America. It feeds on the riverbank grape, Vitis riparia.
Source: Wikipedia
Size
Adults are 6 to 7.5 mm in length.
Source: Wikipedia
What it eats
It eats Vitis riparia.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
The species occurs in Central America and North America.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 33 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Illinois, Texas, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Colorado.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
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- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taedia_scrupea
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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.