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Plant bug

Plagiognathus arbustorum

5,318Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
109Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May26
Jun969
Jul2,776
Aug956
Sep102
Oct6
Nov0
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England475
2Kent England215
3Norfolk England193
4Cambridgeshire England188
5Devon England149
6Warrington England119
7North Yorkshire England100
8Suffolk England97
9Oxfordshire England97
10Highland Scotland95
11Stockport England93
12Cheshire East England84
13York England81
14Cumbria England77
15Essex England71
4,694 England308 Scotland178 Wales71 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 109 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,318
Peak month
July
Counties with records
109
Scientific name
Plagiognathus arbustorum
Group
True bugs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Plagiognathus
Name with authority
Plagiognathus arbustorum (Fabricius, 1794)
Described
1794
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10632626 · GBIF 5152968