Tree locust
The tree locust is a big, slender grasshopper from southern Africa. Its body is mottled reddish brown or grey, and its front wings are speckled green. Unlike most grasshoppers, it likes to live up in trees and bushes.
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Fun facts
When it opens its back wings, they are pale blue with a black band.
Its back legs have purple shins.
Its babies, called hoppers, are yellowish green.
Its eyes and face have stripes that run up and down.
It can sometimes damage crops and fruit trees, but it only forms big swarms once in a while.
Most asked questions about Tree locust
?How big is the tree locust?
It is 5 to 9 centimetres long, a really big grasshopper.
?What does the tree locust eat?
Leaves of trees and bushes such as acacias and gum trees.
?Is the tree locust dangerous?
No. It cannot sting or hurt people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anacridium moestum
- Named by
- Serville, 1838
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Africa
- Also known as
- Camouflaged tree locust
Where the facts come from
- Anacridium moestum (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 JMK. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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