Common mountain bush-cricket
The common mountain bush-cricket is a chunky, dark brown or grey bush-cricket from the mountains. It has light stripes and spots on its body and tiny spines on its strong legs. Its wings are so short that it cannot fly.
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Fun facts
The female has a long egg-laying tube at her back end that is almost as long as her body.
The female's wings are tiny, and the male's wings stick out only 3 to 4 millimetres.
It lives high in the mountains, up to 2,000 metres above the sea.
Grown-ups can be found from July to October, and the eggs are laid in the ground.
Most asked questions about Common mountain bush-cricket
?Where does the common mountain bush-cricket live?
In the mountains of Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland and Austria, among tall plants and low bushes.
?What does the common mountain bush-cricket eat?
Plants and insects, especially small grasshoppers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Antaxius pedestris
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1787
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Antaxius pedestris (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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