Fuzzy olive-green grasshopper
Campylacantha olivacea
The fuzzy olive-green grasshopper is a North American grasshopper. Its name tells you what it looks like: olive green and a bit fuzzy. It has strong back legs for big jumps.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Like other grasshoppers, it eats grasses and other plants.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Fuzzy olive-green grasshopper about 10 km/h (6.2 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 is a spur-throated grasshopper, which means it has a tiny spike on its chest between its front legs.
2
Scientists split it into three slightly different kinds, called subspecies.
3
It belongs to the short-horned grasshoppers, which have short feelers.
you asked
Most asked questions about Fuzzy olive-green grasshopper
?Is the fuzzy olive-green grasshopper dangerous?
No. It is a harmless plant eater.
?What does the fuzzy olive-green grasshopper eat?
Plants, such as grasses and leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Campylacantha olivacea
- Named by
- Scudder, 1875
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Olive grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Campylacantha olivacea (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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