Steppe spiny bush-cricket
Gampsocleis glabra
The steppe spiny bush-cricket is a bush cricket from Europe. Bush crickets look like grasshoppers but have very long, thin feelers. It lives in dry, grassy places like steppes and heaths.
Lives in
Most of mainland Europe, east to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. A big bush cricket can nip with its jaws if you hold it, so just watch it.
What does it eat?
It mostly hunts insects, but sometimes it also eats grasses, heather and other plants.
How fast is it?
Steppe spiny 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 eats both small animals and plants.
2
It likes poor, dry grasslands and heaths where the grass grows tall.
3
It lives across most of mainland Europe, all the way to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
you asked
Most asked questions about Steppe spiny bush-cricket
?What does the steppe spiny bush-cricket eat?
Mostly insects, and sometimes grasses, heather and other plants.
?Where does the steppe spiny bush-cricket live?
In dry grasslands, steppes and heaths across most of mainland Europe.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gampsocleis glabra
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Gampsocleis glabra (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 This image is created by user Tim Adriaens at Observation.org , a global biodiversity recording project.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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