Fontana grasshopper
Trimerotropis fontana
The Fontana grasshopper is a grasshopper from North America. It belongs to the band-winged grasshoppers. It jumps with its strong back legs and can also fly.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting, so you can watch it hop.
What does it eat?
It eats plants, like other grasshoppers.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Fontana grasshopper about 10 km/h (6.2 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
It is a band-winged grasshopper. Many of these hide colourful back wings that you only see when they fly.
2
It belongs to the short-horned grasshoppers, which have short feelers on their heads.
3
Fontana grasshopper is its common English name.
you asked
Most asked questions about Fontana grasshopper
?Is the Fontana grasshopper dangerous?
No. Grasshoppers do not sting and it is harmless.
?Where does the Fontana grasshopper live?
In North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trimerotropis fontana
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Trimerotropis fontana (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 EugeneZelenko. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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