Four-spotted tree cricket
Oecanthus quadripunctatus
The four-spotted tree cricket is a slim, pale tree cricket from North America. Tree crickets live up in plants instead of on the ground. It is one of the most common tree crickets.
Lives in
North America, in tall plants and bushes
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Tree crickets like it nibble on leaves and flowers and also eat small insects such as aphids.
How fast is it?
Four-spotted tree 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 belongs to the tree crickets, crickets that live in bushes and tall plants.
2
It is called one of the "common tree crickets".
3
Male crickets sing by rubbing their wings together.
you asked
Most asked questions about Four-spotted tree cricket
?Where does the four-spotted tree cricket live?
In North America, in tall plants and bushes.
?Is the four-spotted tree cricket dangerous?
No. It is a small, harmless cricket.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Oecanthus quadripunctatus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Gryllidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Oecanthus quadripunctatus (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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