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Sticker of Chabrier's bush-cricket
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Chabrier's bush-cricket

Eupholidoptera chabrieri
Eats: A bit of everythingGrasshoppers and cricketsForests and woods6 legs

Chabrier's bush-cricket is a bright green bush-cricket with an orange top to its head. Its feelers are even longer than its body, and its long back legs are decorated with black spots and tiny spines. It sings with short, high little beeps.

Lives in
Southern Europe, from France and Italy to Croatia, Romania and Greece, at the edges of woods and in bushes
Length
2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.2 in)
Top speed
about 3.7 km/h (2.3 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. A big bush-cricket may give a little nip if you grab it, so it is best to just watch it.
What does it eat?
Not much is written about its food. Like many bush-crickets, it most likely nibbles plants and also catches small insects.
For real!Photo of Chabrier's bush-cricket
Picture by Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Chabrier's bush-cricket about 3 cm long (1.2 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)A crayon about 9 cm (3.5 in)
as long as 5 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 1 secondsmoves 34 times its own body length every second

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Fun facts

1

Its wings are tiny. The female's wings are almost hidden under the shield behind her head.

2

The female has a long, slightly curved tube at the end of her body for laying eggs. It is nearly as long as her body.

3

Only the eggs live through the winter. The babies hatch the next April.

4

Its song is a row of short, high single sounds, with a few seconds of quiet in between.

5

You can meet the grown-ups from July to September.

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Most asked questions about Chabrier's bush-cricket

?How big is Chabrier's bush-cricket?

It is 2 to 3 centimetres long, not counting its very long feelers.

?What does Chabrier's bush-cricket sound like?

It makes short, high sounds, one at a time, with a pause of a few seconds between them.

?Is a bush-cricket dangerous?

No. It might nip if you hold it, but it is harmless.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Eupholidoptera chabrieri
Named by
Charpentier, 1825
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Tettigoniidae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
Lives on
Europe

Where the facts come from

  1. Eupholidoptera chabrieri (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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