Large painted locust
Schistocerca melanocera
The large painted locust is a big grasshopper that lives only on the Galápagos Islands. It can grow as long as your finger. Many hungry island animals like to eat it.
Lives in
Only on the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador
Length
8 cm (3.1 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Like other grasshoppers, it munches on plants.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🧱as long as 2.5 toy building bricks in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 0.2 seconds⚡moves 52 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Large painted locust about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It can grow up to 8 centimetres long, about as long as a grown-up's finger.
2
It is an important meal for the Galápagos hawk and for lava lizards.
3
It lives on the Galápagos Islands, but not on Española, one of the islands there.
you asked
Most asked questions about Large painted locust
?How big is the large painted locust?
It can grow up to 8 cm long.
?Where does the large painted locust live?
Only on the Galápagos Islands, which belong to Ecuador.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Schistocerca melanocera
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Schistocerca melanocera (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 Diego Delso. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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