Large banded grasshopper
The large banded grasshopper is a big grasshopper of mountain meadows. Its body is yellow-brown or yellow-green with dark marks, and its back legs are bright red. Its knees are black with a white band around them.
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Fun facts
Only the males can fly. The females have short wings that are too small for flying.
The males make different sounds to say this is my place, to argue with another male or to win over a female.
The mother lays her eggs in little packets in short tunnels she digs in the ground.
It first came from the steppes of Central Asia, but now it also lives in the mountains of Europe, like the Alps and the Pyrenees.
Most asked questions about Large banded grasshopper
?How big is the large banded grasshopper?
Males are about 2 to 3,5 centimetres long, and females about 3 to 4,5 centimetres.
?Can the large banded grasshopper fly?
Only the males can. The females have short wings that are too small for flying.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arcyptera fusca
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Arcyptera fusca (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 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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