Dark bush-cricket
The dark bush-cricket is a brown bush-cricket with very long feelers and long back legs. It cannot fly, because its wings are tiny or almost missing. You can hear its short, sharp chirp from bushes both day and night.
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Fun facts
The male's wings are only about 5 millimetres long, and the female has hardly any wings at all.
The female has a curved, sickle-shaped tube at her tail end for laying eggs.
She lays her eggs in the soil, in dead branches and in rotting wood.
Its babies take two whole years to grow up and change their skin seven times.
On the Isle of Man it lives in only two places and is protected by law.
Most asked questions about Dark bush-cricket
?What does the dark bush-cricket eat?
Mostly small insects like aphids and caterpillars, and also plants like brambles and nettles.
?Can the dark bush-cricket fly?
No. Its wings are far too small for flying.
?How big is the dark bush-cricket?
About 11 to 21 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pholidoptera griseoaptera
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Pholidoptera griseoaptera (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 round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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