Common maquis grasshopper
Pezotettix giornae
The common maquis grasshopper is a very small brown or grey grasshopper. Its wings are tiny ovals, much too short to fly with, so it hops everywhere. Even as a grown-up it looks like a baby grasshopper.
Lives in
Southern and central Europe, North Africa and the Near East, in meadows, forest edges and dry stony slopes
Length
1.1 to 1.8 cm (0.43 to 0.71 in)
females are bigger than malesCan it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other short-horned grasshoppers, it munches on plants.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 3 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 0.5 seconds⚡moves 110 times its own body length every second
How big is Common maquis grasshopper compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Common maquis grasshopper about 7.2 km/h (4.5 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
Its babies are usually green, but the grown-ups are light brown to grey.
2
It often stays a grown-up through the whole winter, so you can find it as early as March.
3
It grows up in summer and sheds its skin six times on the way.
you asked
Most asked questions about Common maquis grasshopper
?Can the common maquis grasshopper fly?
No. Its wings are very short, so it can only jump and walk.
?How big is the common maquis grasshopper?
It is about 1 to 2 centimetres long. Females are bigger than males.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pezotettix giornae
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Pezotettix giornae (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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