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Spotted meadow katydid

Conocephalus maculatus
Eats: PlantsGrasshoppers and cricketsGardens and meadows6 legs

The spotted meadow katydid is a bush cricket, a cousin of the grasshopper with very long feelers. It belongs to a group called coneheads. It lives in warm parts of Africa and Asia.

Lives in
Africa, southern Asia and South-East Asia, in fields and grassy places
Top speed
about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
It eats plants, and in some places it nibbles grain crops like millet and maize.
For real!Photo of Spotted meadow katydid
Picture by harum.koh from Kobe city, Japan. CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

cool stuff

Fun facts

1

It belongs to the coneheads, bush crickets with a pointy head.

2

In some years it can gather in big swarms.

3

In the summer of 2008 a huge swarm ate millet and maize fields in north-east India.

you asked

Most asked questions about Spotted meadow katydid

?What does the spotted meadow katydid eat?

It eats plants. Sometimes big swarms eat farmers' millet and maize.

?Is a katydid a grasshopper?

It is a close cousin. Katydids, also called bush crickets, have much longer feelers than grasshoppers.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Conocephalus maculatus
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Tettigoniidae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
Lives on
Africa, Asia

Where the facts come from

  1. Conocephalus maculatus (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 harum.koh from Kobe city, Japan. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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