Pine tree spur-throat grasshopper
Melanoplus punctulatus
The pine tree spur-throat grasshopper is a grasshopper from eastern North America. It has a little spur, like a tiny peg, under its throat, which gives its group its name. It is also called the grizzly spur-throat grasshopper.
Lives in
Eastern North America, in woods
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Like other grasshoppers of its kind, it eats plants.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Pine tree spur-throat 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 belongs to the spur-throated grasshoppers, which have a little bump under the throat.
2
Scientists have named three different kinds of it.
3
Its name punctulatus means covered in small dots.
you asked
Most asked questions about Pine tree spur-throat grasshopper
?Is the spur-throat grasshopper dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
?Where does the pine tree spur-throat grasshopper live?
In eastern North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Melanoplus punctulatus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Grizzly spur-throat grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Melanoplus punctulatus (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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