Bicolour meadow bush-cricket
Bicolorana bicolor
The bicolour meadow bush-cricket is a bush cricket from Western Europe. Most of them have short wings, but now and then you can find one with long wings. Like all bush crickets, it has very long, thin feelers.
Lives in
Mainland Western Europe, in meadows
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. A big bush cricket may give a little nip if you hold it, but it is not dangerous.
What does it eat?
Bush crickets like it nibble plants, and many also eat small insects.
How fast is it?
Bicolour meadow 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
Most of them have short wings, but some grow long wings instead.
2
It was first described in 1830 under a different name, Locusta bicolor.
3
Like other bush crickets, its feelers can be longer than its whole body.
you asked
Most asked questions about Bicolour meadow bush-cricket
?Is the bicolour meadow bush-cricket dangerous?
No. It may give a little nip if you hold it, but it cannot hurt you.
?Where does the bicolour meadow bush-cricket live?
In mainland Western Europe.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bicolorana bicolor
- Named by
- Philippi, 1830
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Bicolorana bicolor (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 G.-U. Tolkiehn. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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