Cattail toothpick grasshopper
The cattail toothpick grasshopper is a long, thin grasshopper with a very pointed head and flat, sword shaped feelers. It is usually brown with a pale stripe from its eye down to its front legs. It sits on cattails and sedges in wet places.
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Fun facts
Its front wings are sharply pointed and stick out 3 to 5 millimetres past the end of its body.
Its head is as long as, or even longer than, the part of the body right behind it.
The female lays her eggs inside the stem of a plant.
It has a little spine between its front legs, which helps tell it apart from look-alike grasshoppers.
Most asked questions about Cattail toothpick grasshopper
?Where does the cattail toothpick grasshopper live?
In wet places across the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean and the warm parts of the Americas, on plants like cattails.
?Where does the cattail toothpick grasshopper lay its eggs?
The female lays her eggs inside the stem of a plant. The mating season begins around April.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leptysma marginicollis
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Slender locust
Where the facts come from
- Leptysma marginicollis (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 Rhododendrites. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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