Red-faced bush-cricket
The red-faced bush-cricket is a grey-brown or reddish bush-cricket with a reddish head. It has very long back legs with tiny spines. It lives in bushes, at the edges of woods and in grassy meadows.
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Fun facts
The female has a long egg-laying tube on her back end, about 10 to 15 millimetres long.
It sings with scratchy little sounds, one quickly after another.
The grown-ups can be found from July to September.
It is the only species in its genus.
It has a dark patch above each eye, crossed by a whitish line.
Most asked questions about Red-faced bush-cricket
?How big is the red-faced bush-cricket?
It is about 20 to 27 millimetres long.
?When can you see the red-faced bush-cricket?
The grown-ups are out from July to September.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sepiana sepium
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Sepia bush-cricket
Where the facts come from
- Sepiana (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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