Black-spotted toothed grasshopper
Stenobothrus nigromaculatus
The black-spotted toothed grasshopper is a grasshopper that lives all the way from Spain to Siberia. It likes hills and mountains. In some places it lives more than 2 kilometres above the sea.
Lives in
Europe and Asia, from Spain to Siberia, in hills and mountains
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Like other grasshoppers, it eats grasses and other plants.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Black-spotted toothed 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
In Switzerland it has been found as high as 2270 metres up in the mountains.
2
In Germany it usually lives between 250 and 900 metres high, but once it was found at almost 1500 metres.
3
Its home stretches from Portugal and Spain through the Caucasus all the way to Siberia.
you asked
Most asked questions about Black-spotted toothed grasshopper
?Where does the black-spotted toothed grasshopper live?
In patches across Europe and Asia, from Spain and Portugal to Siberia, often in hills and mountains.
?Is the black-spotted toothed grasshopper dangerous?
No. It is a harmless plant eater.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stenobothrus nigromaculatus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Stenobothrus nigromaculatus (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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