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Raymond's bush-cricket

Yersinella raymondii
Name means: “named after Yersin, the scientist who described it in 1860”
Eats: A bit of everythingGrasshoppers and cricketsForests and woods6 legs

Raymond's bush-cricket is a small brown or grey cricket with a pale stripe down its back. Its feelers are even longer than its whole body. It hides in bushes and low plants at the edges of forests.

Lives in
Southern and central Europe, from Spain to Greece, at forest edges and in shrubby places
Length
1.2 to 1.6 cm (0.47 to 0.63 in)
Top speed
about 2.7 km/h (1.7 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a small, shy cricket that keeps out of the way.
What does it eat?
It eats tiny animals and also plant food.
For real!Photo of Raymond's bush-cricket
Picture by Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Raymond's bush-cricket about 1.6 cm long (0.63 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 2.5 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 1.3 secondsmoves 47 times its own body length every second

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Fun facts

1

The female's wings are so tiny you can hardly see them. The male's wings are a bit bigger, but still short.

2

Because it is so small and has such short wings, people often mix it up with a baby grasshopper.

3

The female has a long, curved egg-laying tube at the end of her body, so with it she can be up to 26 millimetres long.

4

You can meet grown-up crickets from July until November. The young ones live down in the fallen leaves.

5

It notices when its forest changes, so scientists use it to check how healthy a forest is.

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Most asked questions about Raymond's bush-cricket

?How big is Raymond's bush-cricket?

Grown-ups are about 12 to 16 millimetres long. That is about as long as your little fingernail.

?What does Raymond's bush-cricket eat?

Small animals and plant food.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Yersinella raymondii
Named by
Yersin, 1860
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Tettigoniidae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
Lives on
Europe

Where the facts come from

  1. Yersinella raymondii (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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