Common straw grasshopper
Euchorthippus declivus
The common straw grasshopper is light brown or beige, the colour of dry straw. Dark stripes run back from its eyes, and it has a rather big head. Its wings are so tiny they have almost disappeared.
Lives in
Middle and southern Europe, in sunny dry meadows and pastures
Length
1.4 to 2.7 cm (0.55 to 1.1 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
It eats grasses.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 4 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 0.4 seconds⚡moves 91 times its own body length every second
How big is Common straw grasshopper compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Common straw grasshopper about 8.8 km/h (5.5 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The females are bigger than the males, up to about 2.7 centimetres long.
2
The bottom of its tummy is yellow, and the males usually have an orange tip at the end.
3
Some are a little yellow-green instead of brown.
4
Its eggs spend the winter in the soil.
5
You can meet it from July to October.
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Most asked questions about Common straw grasshopper
?How big is the common straw grasshopper?
Males are about 14 to 20 millimetres long and females 20 to 27 millimetres.
?What does the common straw grasshopper eat?
Grasses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euchorthippus declivus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Europe
- Also known as
- Jersey grasshopper, Sharp-tailed grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Euchorthippus declivus (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 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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