Insects Feeding
on this Plant:
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Geranium maculatum (Wild Geranium) [Geraniaceae]
(Observations are from Arnett & Jacques, Hottes & Frison, Rider, MacRae, Blackman & Eastop, Pepper, Wilhelm & Rericha)
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Buprestidae: Pachyschelus purpureus purpureus [larvae mine leaves, adults scrape tissue from leaves, oligophagous] Mcr1991 WR2017
Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Cydnidae: Sehirus spp. Rid2009; Miriidae: Metriorrhynchomiris dislocatus (Yellow Plant Bug) [polyphagous, found in wooded areas] AJ1981 Kn1941; Pentatomidae: Euschistus servus [polyphagous] Rid2009, Euschistus tristigma tristigma Rid2009; Thyreocoridae: Corimelaena lateralis Rid2009, Corimelaena pulicarius Rid2009
Homoptera (Sucking Insects)
Aphididae: Macrosiphum geranii [Geranium maculatum is the preferred host; this aphid is distributed in E USA] HF1931 BE2013 Pp1965