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Common long-legged bush-cricket

Acrometopa macropoda
Eats: PlantsGrasshoppers and cricketsGardens and meadows6 legs

The common long-legged bush-cricket is a bush-cricket from southern Europe. As its name says, it has very long legs. It likes dry, grassy places with bushes and tall plants like thistles.

Lives in
Southern Europe, along the Adriatic Sea from Italy to Greece, in dry grassland
Top speed
about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
Like its close relatives, it eats leaves and other soft plant parts.
For real!Photo of Common long-legged bush-cricket
Picture by CarlaSchneider. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

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Fun facts

1

It lives on both sides of the Adriatic Sea, in Italy and in the Balkans, and south to Greece.

2

It likes to sit on tall plants such as thistles.

3

Some scientists think it might be just a type of a very similar bush-cricket, Acrometopa servillea.

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Most asked questions about Common long-legged bush-cricket

?Where does the common long-legged bush-cricket live?

In southern Europe, from near Trieste along the Adriatic coast down to Greece.

?Is the common long-legged bush-cricket dangerous?

No. It is a harmless plant eater.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Acrometopa macropoda
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Tettigoniidae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
Lives on
Europe

Where the facts come from

  1. Acrometopa macropoda (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 CarlaSchneider. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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