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Two-striped mermiria

Mermiria bivittata
Eats: PlantsGrasshoppers and cricketsGardens and meadows6 legs

The two-striped mermiria is a slant-faced grasshopper. That means its face slopes back like a ski jump. It lives among grasses and leaps away on its long back legs when you come near.

Lives in
North America and Central America
Top speed
about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting, and it would rather jump away than nip you.
What does it eat?
Like other grasshoppers, it munches on plants.
For real!Photo of Two-striped mermiria
Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

cool stuff

Fun facts

1

There are two slightly different kinds of it, called subspecies.

2

Grasshoppers like it hear with little ears on the sides of their belly.

3

Its big back legs can throw it many times its own length in a single jump.

you asked

Most asked questions about Two-striped mermiria

?Is the two-striped mermiria dangerous?

No. It is a harmless grasshopper.

?Where does the two-striped mermiria live?

In North America and Central America.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Mermiria bivittata
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Acrididae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
Lives on
North America
Also known as
Two-striped slantface grasshopper, Mermiria grasshopper

Where the facts come from

  1. Mermiria bivittata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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