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Ptyelus grossus - Rain-tree bug
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Photo(s): Bart Wursten, National Botanic Garden, Harare.
Species details:
| Note: | Larvae and nymphs of this species are highly gregarious. While feeding on the sap of certain tree species they excrete a foamy liquid that forms protective nests around them. Numbers of these nymphs can by so high in a single tree that the excessive excretions can drip onto the soil below the tree and may form wet patches or even small puddles. |
| Distribution: | Widespread in tropical and Southern Africa. |
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| Literature: | Picker, M., Griffiths, C. & Weaving, A. (2002), Field guide to Insects of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 154. Also see Note 20 for more information. |
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