[1] It is a predator of aphids, spider mites and jumping plant lice, and is therefore used as a biological pest control agent.

[3] Anthocoris nemoralis has a West Palearctic distribution and is found from the British Isles across Western Europe East to the Caucasus and South to the Mediterranean basin.

[4] Both the nymphs and the adults of A. nemoralis are predaceous, feeding by plunging their proboscises into their insect prey and sucking out the body fluids.

[3] These bugs are able to utilise a range of different trees, with a wide range of prey being targeted; the prey include aphids, spider mites, thrips, juvenile scale insects, pear psylla and the eggs of a variety of insects.

[5] In Europe it is considered to be one of the most important control agents of Cacopsylla pyricola and Psylla pyri and has a density-dependent relationship with the former.