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Slender green-winged grasshopper

Aiolopus thalassinus
Eats: PlantsGrasshoppers and cricketsGardens and meadows6 legs

The slender green-winged grasshopper is a light brown to dark brown grasshopper. It has strong back legs for big jumps. It lives in a huge area, from Europe and Africa all the way to Asia and the Pacific islands.

Lives in
Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific islands
Length
1.5 to 2.9 cm (0.59 to 1.1 in)
Top speed
about 9.1 km/h (5.7 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other grasshoppers, it eats plants.
For real!Photo of Slender green-winged grasshopper
Picture by unknown author. CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Slender green-winged grasshopper about 2.9 cm long (1.1 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)A crayon about 9 cm (3.5 in)
as long as 5 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 0.4 secondsmoves 87 times its own body length every second

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Fun facts

1

The females are bigger than the males. Females grow to 21 to 29 millimetres and males to 15 to 19 millimetres.

2

It lives in many European countries, but not in Britain or Ireland.

3

There are five slightly different kinds, including one that lives only on the island of Corsica.

4

One kind lives on islands in the Indian Ocean, such as Madagascar and Mauritius.

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Most asked questions about Slender green-winged grasshopper

?How big is the slender green-winged grasshopper?

Females are about 2 to 3 centimetres long, and males a bit smaller.

?Where does the slender green-winged grasshopper live?

In much of Europe, Africa and Asia, and on Pacific islands and in Australia.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Aiolopus thalassinus
Named by
Fabricius, 1781
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Acrididae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
Lives on
Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania

Where the facts come from

  1. Aiolopus thalassinus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by unknown author. CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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