Greek marbled bush-cricket
Eupholidoptera megastyla
The Greek marbled bush-cricket is a bush-cricket that lives only in Greece. It hides in bushes and shrubs and is not fussy about food. It has been seen enjoying very ripe, squishy mulberries.
Lives in
Only in Greece, on the mainland and many islands, in bushes and shrubs
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is not known to hurt people.
What does it eat?
It has been seen eating overripe mulberries. Its relatives eat leaves, fruit, seeds and flowers, and sometimes small animals too.
How fast is it?
Greek marbled bush-cricket about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 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
It lives nowhere else in the world except Greece.
2
You can find it from the seaside all the way up high in the mountains.
3
It belongs to the bush-crickets, which eat almost anything, from leaves and seeds to small insects.
you asked
Most asked questions about Greek marbled bush-cricket
?Where does the Greek marbled bush-cricket live?
Only in Greece, on the mainland and on islands, in and around bushes.
?What does the Greek marbled bush-cricket eat?
It has been seen eating very ripe mulberries. Bush-crickets also eat leaves, seeds and small creatures.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eupholidoptera megastyla
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Eupholidoptera megastyla (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 Dvusert. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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