Alpine dark bush-cricket
Pholidoptera aptera
The alpine dark bush-cricket is a dark cricket that lives in the mountains of Europe. It hides in long grass, ferns and low bushes in sunny forest clearings. High up in the mountains it likes warm slopes that face the sun.
Lives in
Central and Eastern Europe, in the Alps and the hills around them
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Hold it gently if you catch one, and let it hop away again.
What does it eat?
Like other bush-crickets, it nibbles on plants and also eats small insects.
How fast is it?
Alpine dark bush-cricket about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 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 can live from low valleys up to about 2,360 metres above the sea.
2
It lives in Switzerland, southern Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
3
It likes forest clearings, old orchards, fern slopes and rocky places with low bushes.
you asked
Most asked questions about Alpine dark bush-cricket
?Where does the alpine dark bush-cricket live?
In the Alps and the hills around them, in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
?Is the alpine dark bush-cricket dangerous?
No. It is a harmless cricket.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pholidoptera aptera
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Pholidoptera aptera (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 Please report references to kulac gmx.at .. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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