Snakeweed grasshopper
Hesperotettix viridis
The snakeweed grasshopper is a grasshopper from North America. It belongs to the spur-throated grasshoppers, which have a little peg under their chest between the front legs. Some of its kinds have purple stripes.
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 munches on plants.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Snakeweed 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
Scientists split it into four kinds, called subspecies.
2
One kind is called the purple-striped grasshopper.
3
Another kind is called the short-winged snakeweed grasshopper.
you asked
Most asked questions about Snakeweed grasshopper
?Is the snakeweed grasshopper dangerous?
No. It is a grasshopper and harmless to people.
?Where does the snakeweed grasshopper live?
In North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hesperotettix viridis
- Named by
- Thomas, 1872
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Meadow purple-striped grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Hesperotettix viridis (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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