Sickle-bearing bush-cricket
The sickle-bearing bush-cricket is a slim green bush-cricket with very long feelers and long thin legs. The female has a curved egg-laying tube at the end of her body, shaped like a little sickle. That is where its name comes from.
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Fun facts
It is moving further and further north. It reached Denmark in 2010 and Sweden in 2014.
A small group was found living in England, near Dungeness in Kent, in 2015.
It likes warm places like dry bushes, sand pits and gardens.
Most asked questions about Sickle-bearing bush-cricket
?Why is it called sickle-bearing?
Because the female's egg-laying tube is curved like a sickle.
?How big is the sickle-bearing bush-cricket?
It is about 2.4 to 3.6 centimetres long.
?Is the sickle-bearing bush-cricket dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phaneroptera falcata
- Named by
- Poda, 1761
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Phaneroptera falcata (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 User:juan_e. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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