Tarnished plant bug
Insect
Tarnished plant bug
Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois)
Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae
Distribution: Widespread in most fruit-growing states and provinces in eastern North America.
The adult is brown and the extremities of its wings are translucent with a cream-colored scutellum (triangular plate) on its back (A). The nymph is pale green; from the 3rd nymphal stage, it has five black points on the back (B). Usually abandons fruit trees for alternate hosts soon after bloom.