Japanese rice grasshopper
Oxya japonica
The Japanese rice grasshopper is a grasshopper from East Asia. It has short feelers, so it is called a short-horned grasshopper. Like all grasshoppers, it has long, strong back legs for jumping.
Lives in
East Asia and tropical South East Asia, in fields and grassy places
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting and almost never bites people.
What does it eat?
It eats grasses and other plants. As its name says, it is often found in rice fields.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Japanese rice 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
It is a short-horned grasshopper, which means its feelers are shorter than its body.
2
There are two slightly different forms of it, each living in its own area.
3
It lives in eastern Asia and in the warm tropical parts of South East Asia.
you asked
Most asked questions about Japanese rice grasshopper
?Where does the Japanese rice grasshopper live?
In eastern and South East Asia, in fields and grassy places.
?What does the rice grasshopper eat?
Grasses and other plants, often in rice fields.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Oxya japonica
- Named by
- Thunberg, 1815
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Japanese grasshopper, Rice grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Oxya japonica (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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