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Eastern grey bush-cricket

Platycleis grisea
Eats: A bit of everythingGrasshoppers and cricketsGardens and meadows6 legs

The eastern grey bush-cricket is a grey or light brown cricket with darker marbled patterns. It has long wings that stick out past the end of its body, and it is a good flyer. It lives in warm, dry grassy places in Europe and North Africa.

Lives in
Mainland Europe and North Africa, in warm, dry grassland
Length
1.5 to 2.4 cm (0.59 to 0.94 in)
Top speed
about 3.3 km/h (2.1 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting, and it would rather hop or fly away than meet you.
What does it eat?
Like many bush-crickets, it eats plants and also small insects.
For real!Photo of Eastern grey bush-cricket
Picture by Gilles San Martin. CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Eastern grey bush-cricket about 2.4 cm long (0.94 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)A crayon about 9 cm (3.5 in)
as long as 4 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 1.1 secondsmoves 38 times its own body length every second

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Fun facts

1

Its song is a soft chirp of four to six notes that goes on for minutes. You can only hear it from a few metres away.

2

Because it flies well, it can easily move to new places.

3

It also lives beside railways and roads and in old quarries.

4

You can find grown-ups from June to October.

5

It looks almost exactly like a cousin of its. Only experts can tell them apart for sure.

you asked

Most asked questions about Eastern grey bush-cricket

?Can the eastern grey bush-cricket fly?

Yes. Its long wings stick out past its body and it is a good flyer.

?How big is the eastern grey bush-cricket?

Its body is about 15 to 24 millimetres long.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Platycleis grisea
Named by
Fabricius, 1781
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Tettigoniidae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
Lives on
Europe, Africa

Where the facts come from

  1. Platycleis grisea (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by Gilles San Martin. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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