Lesser mottled grasshopper
The lesser mottled grasshopper is a small grasshopper that lives in grassy places all over Europe. It hops through the grass on its long back legs. Its body is covered in blotchy, mottled colours that help it hide.
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Fun facts
It lives as far north as Scandinavia and as far east as the Baltic Sea coast in Lithuania.
In the southern Alps in Italy, a very similar sister species lives in its place.
In Britain it was first only known from the Isle of Man, but now it has been found in north Wales and around the Wash too.
Most asked questions about Lesser mottled grasshopper
?Where does the lesser mottled grasshopper live?
In most of Europe, from southern Spain up to Scandinavia and east into Russia.
?What does the lesser mottled grasshopper eat?
Grass and other green plants, like most grasshoppers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stenobothrus stigmaticus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Stenobothrus stigmaticus (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 Gilles San Martin. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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