Southern green-striped grasshopper
This grasshopper lives in grassy places in North America. Females are usually green and males are usually brown. It belongs to the band-winged grasshoppers, which flash coloured wings when they fly.
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Fun facts
It spends the winter as a half-grown youngster, so it is often the very first grasshopper you see in spring.
In the warm southeast it can have several families in one year.
It sheds its skin about five times before it is grown up.
Some scientists count the southern kind as its own species, others as just a local form of the green-striped grasshopper.
Most asked questions about Southern green-striped grasshopper
?How big is the green-striped grasshopper?
Males are about 2.3 to 3 centimetres long and females about 2.8 to 3.8 centimetres.
?Why do I see green-striped grasshoppers so early in spring?
Because the young ones survive the winter and grow up quickly when it gets warm.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chortophaga australior
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Green-striped grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Chortophaga viridifasciata (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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