Adult leaf-footed bugs can intimidate people, but they do not bite and need to be dealt with. ... The bugs have a piercing and sucking mouth part that allows them to feed on the juices of many edible and ornamental plants.

Do leaf bugs bite?

Thankfully, the pests do not bite or spread diseases to humans. However, they do have a terrible scent, especially when crushed.

Do leaf footed bugs carry disease?

IDENTIFICATION HELP

What Jeremy found is a leaf-footed bug. They DO NOT transmit Chagas disease. They eat plant juices and not animal blood.