Broad-winged tree cricket
Oecanthus latipennis
The broad-winged tree cricket is a cricket from North America that lives up in plants and bushes instead of down on the ground. As its name says, it has wide wings.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Crickets cannot sting.
What does it eat?
Tree crickets nibble on plants and also eat small insects such as aphids.
How fast is it?
Broad-winged tree cricket about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 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
Male crickets sing by rubbing their wings together.
2
Crickets hear with tiny ears on their front legs.
3
It belongs to a group called tree crickets, which live on bushes and trees.
you asked
Most asked questions about Broad-winged tree cricket
?Where does the broad-winged tree cricket live?
In North America.
?How do tree crickets make their sound?
The males rub their wings together to make a chirping song.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Oecanthus latipennis
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Gryllidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Oecanthus latipennis (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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