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Shielded oak bush-cricket

Cyrtaspis scutata
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsGrasshoppers and cricketsForests and woods6 legs

The shielded oak bush-cricket is a small bush-cricket from southern Europe. It has only short wings. Like other bush-crickets, it has very long thin feelers.

Lives in
Southern Europe, from Portugal and Spain to Croatia, and the Azores
Top speed
about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is small and does not sting.
What does it eat?
Like its oak bush-cricket cousins, it hunts tiny insects on trees and bushes.
For real!Photo of Shielded oak bush-cricket
Picture by Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium. CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

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Fun facts

1

Its wings are short, so it cannot fly well.

2

It lives in many sunny southern places, like Spain, Italy, Corsica and Sardinia.

3

A group of them has also settled in the Netherlands, near the city of Amersfoort, and has been having babies there since at least 2016.

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Most asked questions about Shielded oak bush-cricket

?Where does the shielded oak bush-cricket live?

In southern Europe, and also in one spot in the Netherlands.

?Is the shielded oak bush-cricket dangerous?

No. It is a small, harmless bush-cricket.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Cyrtaspis scutata
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Tettigoniidae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
Lives on
Europe

Where the facts come from

  1. Cyrtaspis scutata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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