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Mischievous bird grasshopper

Schistocerca damnifica
Eats: PlantsGrasshoppers and cricketsGardens and meadows6 legs

The mischievous bird grasshopper is a grasshopper from North America. It belongs to the bird grasshoppers, a group of strong flyers. The females are much bigger than the males.

Lives in
North America
Length
2.5 to 4.7 cm (0.98 to 1.9 in)
males 25 to 33 mm, females 37 to 47 mm
Top speed
about 12 km/h (7.5 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other grasshoppers, it eats plants.
For real!Photo of Mischievous bird grasshopper
Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Mischievous bird grasshopper about 4.7 cm long (1.9 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)A crayon about 9 cm (3.5 in)A banana about 18 cm (7.1 in)
as long as 8 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 0.3 secondsmoves 71 times its own body length every second

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Fun facts

1

Females can be almost one and a half times as long as males.

2

The ones that live in the south have longer wings and feelers than the ones in the north.

3

Some scientists call the southern ones a separate subspecies.

you asked

Most asked questions about Mischievous bird grasshopper

?How big is the mischievous bird grasshopper?

Males are about 25 to 33 millimetres long and females about 37 to 47.

?What does the mischievous bird grasshopper eat?

Like other grasshoppers, it eats plants.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Schistocerca damnifica
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Acrididae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
Lives on
North America
Also known as
Carolina locust

Where the facts come from

  1. Schistocerca damnifica (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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