Field grasshopper
The field grasshopper is a common grasshopper that is usually brown. But not always: some are black, green, purple or even white. The boys sing by rubbing their legs, and a girl who likes the song sings back.
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Fun facts
The boy and girl sing to each other, taking turns, like a little duet.
It likes grass that is about 10 to 20 centimetres tall, not too short and not too long.
There are more of them in places where cows and sheep do not munch the grass short.
When too many live close together, the mums lay only half as many eggs.
Its wings can be plain, spotty or stripy, and the pattern is passed down from the parents.
Most asked questions about Field grasshopper
?What does a field grasshopper eat?
Mostly grasses, especially fine, thin ones.
?How do grasshoppers sing?
They rub their back legs against their wings. The boys sing to call the girls.
?What colour is a field grasshopper?
Usually brown, but it can also be black, green, purple or white.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chorthippus brunneus
- Named by
- Thunberg, 1815
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Common field grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Chorthippus brunneus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Alvesgaspar. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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