Heath grasshopper
Chorthippus vagans
The heath grasshopper is a grasshopper that loves warm, dry places. It lives where the plants are low and grow far apart. Like other grasshoppers, it can jump a long way with its strong back legs.
Lives in
Europe and Asia, from Denmark and France to Russia, Kazakhstan and Siberia, in warm dry places
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Grasshoppers do not sting.
What does it eat?
It eats plants, like other grasshoppers of its group that mostly nibble grasses.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Heath 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 the British Isles it is rare.
2
In Central Europe it usually lives on hills between 300 and 600 metres up.
3
On the French mountain Mont Ventoux it lives as high as 1,900 metres.
you asked
Most asked questions about Heath grasshopper
?Where does the heath grasshopper live?
In warm, dry places with low plants, across Europe and Asia.
?Is the heath grasshopper dangerous?
No. It is a harmless grasshopper that eats plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chorthippus vagans
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Steppe grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Chorthippus vagans (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 Fritz Geller-Grimm. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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