Meadow dark bush-cricket
The meadow dark bush-cricket is a brown bush-cricket with long legs and very short wings. It has a shield behind its head with a black band and pale edges. You can meet it in late summer at the sunny edges of woods.
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Fun facts
Most are brown, but some are light purple or reddish.
The female has a long, slightly curved tube at the end of her body for laying eggs. It can be more than 1 centimetre long.
Its hind legs have a pattern of dark brown spots.
The grown-ups are out from July until October.
Most asked questions about Meadow dark bush-cricket
?Where does the meadow dark bush-cricket live?
In countries such as Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia, Romania and Greece, in clearings and at forest edges.
?How big is the meadow dark bush-cricket?
About 1.5 to 2.3 centimetres long. Females are a little bigger than males.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pholidoptera fallax
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Pholidoptera fallax (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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