Speckled bush-cricket
The speckled bush-cricket is a small green cricket covered in tiny black speckles. Its feelers are twice as long as its body. It has only tiny stubs for wings, so it cannot fly, and it hides so well in bushes that most people never notice it.
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Fun facts
The boy's song is so high and quiet that people can hardly hear it. A bat detector helps.
Unlike most crickets, the girl answers the boy with a soft song of her own.
The babies hatch in May and shed their skin six times before they are grown up in August.
The mother lays her eggs in tree bark or plant stems, and they hatch next spring.
The young ones stay low in the plants, while the grown-ups often climb high into trees.
Most asked questions about Speckled bush-cricket
?Can the speckled bush-cricket fly?
No. Its wings are only tiny flaps, so it walks and hops instead.
?How big is the speckled bush-cricket?
Its body is about 10 to 15 millimetres long, but its feelers are twice as long.
?Does the speckled bush-cricket sing?
Yes, but its song is so high and quiet that people can hardly hear it.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leptophyes punctatissima
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Speckled bush-cricket (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 Fritz Geller-Grimm. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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