Say's trig
Anaxipha exigua
Say's trig is a tiny cricket from North America and the Caribbean. It belongs to the trigs, small winged crickets that live in bushes and tall plants. Like other crickets, the male sings by rubbing his wings together.
Lives in
North America and the Caribbean, in bushes and tall plants
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Like many small crickets, it nibbles on plants and tiny bits of food it finds.
How fast is it?
Say's trig 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 belongs to a group called the brown trigs.
2
It lives in North America and on islands in the Caribbean.
3
Crickets hear with little ears on their front legs.
you asked
Most asked questions about Say's trig
?Where does Say's trig live?
In North America and the Caribbean.
?Is Say's trig dangerous?
No. It is a tiny cricket and harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anaxipha exigua
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Trigonidiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Trigonidiidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Say's bush cricket
Where the facts come from
- Anaxipha exigua (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 Bruce Marlin. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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