Spotted bird grasshopper
Schistocerca lineata
The spotted bird grasshopper is a grasshopper from North America. It likes dry places with trees and bushes, and there are lots of them in sandy areas. It belongs to the same group as the famous desert locust.
Lives in
Canada, the United States and Mexico, in dry places with trees and shrubs
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot sting, though it may kick with its strong back legs if you hold it.
What does it eat?
Like other grasshoppers, it eats plants.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Spotted bird grasshopper about 10 km/h (6.2 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 comes in four colour types: a typical one, a brown one, an olive green one, and a brightly coloured warning type.
2
It is especially common in sandy places.
3
It lives in three countries: Canada, the United States and Mexico.
you asked
Most asked questions about Spotted bird grasshopper
?Where does the spotted bird grasshopper live?
In Canada, the United States and Mexico, mostly in dry places with trees and bushes.
?What colour is the spotted bird grasshopper?
It comes in four types: typical, brown, olive green and a bright warning colour.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Schistocerca lineata
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Birdwing grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Schistocerca lineata (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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