Purple meadow bush-cricket
Metrioptera saussuriana
The purple meadow bush-cricket is a bush-cricket of high mountain meadows in southern Europe. It lives on many mountains, from Portugal and Spain to the Alps. Like other bush-crickets, it has very long feelers.
Lives in
Mountains of southern Europe, from Portugal and Spain to the Alps, in high meadows
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
Like many bush-crickets, it eats plants and also small insects.
How fast is it?
Purple meadow bush-cricket about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives in the Pyrenees, the Jura mountains and the southern and western Alps.
2
Small groups of it also live on islands such as the Balearic Islands, Corsica and Sardinia.
3
There is a little group near Salzburg in Austria, but it does not live in Germany at all.
you asked
Most asked questions about Purple meadow bush-cricket
?Where does the purple meadow bush-cricket live?
In high meadows on mountains in southern Europe, from Portugal and Spain to the Alps.
?Is the purple meadow bush-cricket dangerous?
No. It is a harmless bush-cricket.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Metrioptera saussuriana
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Metrioptera saussuriana (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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