Oriental longheaded locust
The Oriental longheaded locust is a long, thin grasshopper with a pointed, cone-shaped head. It can be green or brown, so it blends in with grass. Its long back legs help it jump very far.
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Fun facts
The girls are much bigger than the boys. A female can be about 8 centimetres long.
Unlike many grasshoppers, it cannot make chirping sounds with its legs, so it is quiet.
In some places people have eaten it as food.
Its wings are clear, without any colour.
Most asked questions about Oriental longheaded locust
?Is the Oriental longheaded locust dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people, but it can eat farm crops.
?How big is the Oriental longheaded locust?
Males are about 4 to 5 centimetres long and females about 7 to 8 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Acrida cinerea
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Oriental longheaded grasshopper, Chinese grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Acrida cinerea (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 池田正樹 ( talk )masaki ikeda. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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