Ladder grasshopper
The ladder grasshopper is a big grasshopper that lives high up in mountain meadows. Its body can be green or yellow, its wings are dark brown, and its strong back legs are yellow to reddish. In summer the males fill the meadows with a whirring song.
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It is said to be the largest grasshopper of its kind in Europe.
The females are clearly bigger than the males, up to almost 3 centimetres long.
The males make a whirring sound to call the females.
They live together in groups, and you can meet them from July to September.
Most asked questions about Ladder grasshopper
?How big is the ladder grasshopper?
Males are about 2 centimetres long and females almost 3 centimetres.
?Where does the ladder grasshopper live?
In much of Europe and Asia, mostly in high mountain meadows and pastures.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stauroderus scalaris
- Named by
- Fischer von Waldheim, 1846
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Large mountain grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Stauroderus scalaris (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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