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Long-tailed speckled bush-cricket

Leptophyes laticauda
Eats: PlantsGrasshoppers and cricketsForests and woods6 legs

The long-tailed speckled bush-cricket is light green and covered in lots of tiny black dots. A wide reddish brown stripe runs along its back. Its wings are so short you can hardly see them.

Lives in
Southern Europe, from Provence across the southern Alps to the Balkans
Length
1.6 to 2.2 cm (0.63 to 0.87 in)
Top speed
about 3.1 km/h (1.9 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Watch it on the leaves and let it be.
What does it eat?
It munches leaves of many trees, and also blackberry and nettle leaves.
For real!Photo of Long-tailed speckled bush-cricket
Picture by Syrio. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Long-tailed speckled bush-cricket about 2.2 cm long (0.87 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 4 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 1.2 secondsmoves 39 times its own body length every second

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Fun facts

1

It is the biggest member of its group of speckled bush-crickets.

2

The female has a long egg-laying tube at her back end, 10 to 13 millimetres long.

3

Its feelers, lower legs and wings are yellow to reddish brown.

4

It likes shady, damp edges of forests.

5

The grown-ups are out from July to October.

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Most asked questions about Long-tailed speckled bush-cricket

?What does the long-tailed speckled bush-cricket eat?

Leaves of many trees, and also blackberry and nettle.

?Where does the long-tailed speckled bush-cricket live?

In France, Italy, Switzerland and Croatia, on shady forest edges.

?How big is the long-tailed speckled bush-cricket?

It is about 16 to 22 millimetres long.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Leptophyes laticauda
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Tettigoniidae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
Lives on
Europe

Where the facts come from

  1. Leptophyes laticauda (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 Syrio. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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