Broad green-winged grasshopper
This sturdy grasshopper loves warm, dry places with low plants and bare soil. It can be brown, green or yellow, and some have reddish stripes. Its colours even change with the seasons.
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Fun facts
In autumn its green colour fades away, and in spring the females turn green again.
The shins of its back legs are usually red.
Its back wings are often bluish near the body.
It spends the winter as a grown-up, after mating in autumn.
Most asked questions about Broad green-winged grasshopper
?Why does this grasshopper change colour?
Its green fades in autumn, and in spring, when it is time to breed, the females become green again.
?How big is the broad green-winged grasshopper?
Males are about 2 to 2.4 centimetres long and females up to about 3 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aiolopus strepens
- Named by
- Latreille, 1804
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Aiolopus strepens (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 Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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