Lily bush-cricket
The lily bush-cricket is a slim green or light brown bush-cricket with long, thin legs. Its feelers are amazing: they can be up to five times as long as its body. It loves sunny meadows and bushes in southern Europe.
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Fun facts
Its legs have tiny spines on them.
In dry grassland many of them are brown instead of green, which helps them hide.
The female has a curved tube at the end of her body, about half a centimetre long, for laying eggs.
You can find the grown-ups from August to October.
Most asked questions about Lily bush-cricket
?How big is the lily bush-cricket?
Males are about 1.3 to 2.2 cm long and females 1.6 to 2.3 cm, not counting the very long feelers.
?Where does the lily bush-cricket live?
Mostly around the Mediterranean in southern Europe, and also in Israel, Lebanon and the Caucasus.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tylopsis lilifolia
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- White sickle bush-cricket
Where the facts come from
- Tylopsis lilifolia (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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