Eastern saw-tailed bush-cricket
Barbitistes constrictus
The eastern saw-tailed bush-cricket is a bush-cricket, a cousin of the grasshoppers. It lives in Central and Eastern Europe, and in Estonia too. So if you go for a walk in a pine forest, you might meet it.
Lives in
Central and Eastern Europe, from Germany and Austria to Estonia and Russia, in conifer forests
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
It nibbles plants in the forest where it lives.
How fast is it?
Eastern saw-tailed bush-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
It lives mostly in forests of needle trees, such as pines and spruces.
2
It is found in 12 countries, from Germany and Austria in the west to Russia in the east.
3
Bush-crickets have feelers that can be longer than their whole body.
you asked
Most asked questions about Eastern saw-tailed bush-cricket
?Does the eastern saw-tailed bush-cricket live in Estonia?
Yes. It lives in Estonia, mostly in conifer forests.
?Is the eastern saw-tailed bush-cricket dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Barbitistes constrictus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Barbitistes constrictus (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 unknown author. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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