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Green mountain grasshopper

Miramella alpina
Eats: PlantsGrasshoppers and cricketsGardens and meadows6 legs

The green mountain grasshopper is a bright green grasshopper that lives in the mountain meadows of Europe. Its wings are so tiny that it cannot fly. It hops through the grass instead.

Lives in
The Alps and other mountains of Europe, in damp mountain meadows and open woods
Length
1.6 to 3 cm (0.63 to 1.2 in)
females are bigger than males
Top speed
about 9.3 km/h (5.8 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite people or sting.
What does it eat?
It eats grasses, mosses, lichens and other plants, and it especially likes blueberry plants.
For real!Photo of Green mountain grasshopper
Picture by Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Green mountain grasshopper about 3 cm long (1.2 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)A crayon about 9 cm (3.5 in)
as long as 5 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 0.4 secondsmoves 86 times its own body length every second

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cool stuff

Fun facts

1

It has black stripes along its sides.

2

The undersides of its big back legs are red.

3

Males have black lower legs, while females have yellowish ones.

4

You can find it from late June to September.

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Most asked questions about Green mountain grasshopper

?Can the green mountain grasshopper fly?

No. Its wings are too small, so it hops instead.

?What does the green mountain grasshopper eat?

Grasses, mosses, lichens and other plants, especially blueberry plants.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Miramella alpina
Named by
Kollar, 1833
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Acrididae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
Lives on
Europe

Where the facts come from

  1. Miramella alpina (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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