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Iberian saw bush-cricket

Barbitistes fischeri
Eats: PlantsGrasshoppers and cricketsForests and woods6 legs

The Iberian saw bush-cricket is a bush-cricket from southwestern Europe. Bush-crickets are cousins of grasshoppers with very long feelers. This one lives in thin woods and at the edges of forests.

Lives in
Spain, France and Italy, in open woods and forest edges
Top speed
about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
Like its close relatives, it eats the leaves of bushes and trees.
For real!Photo of Iberian saw bush-cricket
Picture by Drahreg01. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

cool stuff

Fun facts

1

It lives up into the foothills of the Alps, as high as 1500 metres.

2

The grown-ups are only around from June to August.

3

Its feelers can be longer than its whole body, like those of other bush-crickets.

you asked

Most asked questions about Iberian saw bush-cricket

?Where does the Iberian saw bush-cricket live?

In Spain, France and Italy, in thin forests and at forest edges.

?When can you see the Iberian saw bush-cricket?

The grown-ups are out from June to August.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Barbitistes fischeri
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Tettigoniidae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
Lives on
Europe

Where the facts come from

  1. Barbitistes fischeri (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 Drahreg01. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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