Blue-winged sand grasshopper
The blue-winged sand grasshopper lives on bare, sandy and stony ground where few plants grow. Its name tells you its secret: it has blue wings, and you can see them when it flies.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It likes places where the ground keeps moving and stays bare, so hardly any plants can grow there.
It is very common around the Mediterranean Sea, especially on rocky heaths.
In the north it reaches as far as southern Finland and eastern Sweden.
It is not in danger. Scientists list it as least concern.
Most asked questions about Blue-winged sand grasshopper
?Where does the blue-winged sand grasshopper live?
On bare sandy and stony ground in Europe, from the Mediterranean up to southern Finland.
?Is the blue-winged sand grasshopper rare?
No. It is very common around the Mediterranean and is not in danger.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sphingonotus caerulans
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Sphingonotus caerulans (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 Andreas Eichler. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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