Firebug Pyrrhocoris apterus

Features

A very social animal, especially on sunny days, we can see a very large number of different generations sucking plant sap on the trunks of trees or on their roots, and often sucking the sap of decaying insects or other dead animals. Fairly slow and prefers to run away than take off.

Species	Insect
Living space	Bright forest, Clean or mixed forest, Conifer forest, Dark forest, Deciduous forest, Mixed forest
Size	10-12 mm

Description

Adults: red body color with distinct black spots and patterns predominates. Head, tentacles and legs uniformly gleaming black. Chest shield red, with a large, black, square spot in the middle. The first pair of wings do not completely cover the rear and are bright red, with a small black dot at the top and a much larger black dot in the middle, and with a wide black border at the bottom and top. The triangle between the wings is also black. The rear is also black, with a red border. In some populations, black patterns may vary, and specimens that are entirely red are often found. The larvae are similar to adults, except that in the early stages of development there is more redness in the body, the wings appear only at the last levitations.