Pallid-winged grasshopper
The pallid-winged grasshopper is a desert grasshopper with pale, speckled colours. When it sits on gravel and stones, it is almost impossible to see. When the males fly, their wings make a crackling sound.
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Fun facts
Its speckled colours match the granite gravel of dry river beds, so it is perfectly hidden.
It feeds when it is between about 24 and 32 degrees warm, and it waits for even hotter days to find a mate.
Males also sing by rubbing a back leg against a front wing, which makes a trilling sound.
Sometimes there are suddenly so many of them that they damage plants.
Most asked questions about Pallid-winged grasshopper
?Where does the pallid-winged grasshopper live?
In dry and desert places from Canada all the way to Argentina.
?How big is the pallid-winged grasshopper?
It grows to about 3.7 centimetres long.
?Why does it make a crackling sound?
The males crackle their wings when they fly, to show off or when they are disturbed.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trimerotropis pallidipennis
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Pallid-winged grasshopper (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 Mike. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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