Javanese grasshopper
The Javanese grasshopper is a big yellowish-brown or green grasshopper with bluish-black marks. When it flies, it flashes beautiful rose-red back wings. It loves to sit in the sun in forest clearings.
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Fun facts
Its babies, called nymphs, are pale green with dark marks and have no wings yet.
A nymph sheds its skin six or seven times before it gets its wings.
In dry years there can be lots more of them than usual, because heavy rain kills many eggs and young ones.
In Java its eggs can wait in the soil for six to eight months before they hatch.
There are more than twenty kinds of it, many living on their own groups of islands.
Most asked questions about Javanese grasshopper
?How big is the Javanese grasshopper?
It is a big grasshopper, about 45 to 75 millimetres long.
?What does the Javanese grasshopper eat?
Tree leaves. On farms it sometimes eats oil palm and rubber tree leaves.
?Does the Javanese grasshopper swarm?
No. It does not form swarms like locusts, but in dry years there can be very many of them.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Valanga nigricornis
- Named by
- Burmeister, 1838
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Javanese bird grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Valanga nigricornis (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 Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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