Hairy scale-cricket
Arachnocephalus vestitus
The hairy scale-cricket is a small cricket that lives near the warm Mediterranean Sea. It belongs to the scaly crickets, which are covered in tiny scales. You can find it along sunny coasts from Spain all the way to the Black Sea.
Lives in
Coasts and islands around the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a small cricket that cannot hurt you.
What does it eat?
Nobody has written down exactly what it eats. Small crickets like it usually nibble bits of plants and tiny scraps of food.
How fast is it?
Hairy scale-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 in many countries, from Spain and Portugal to Greece, Romania and Ukraine.
2
It is found on lots of islands too, like Crete, Corsica, Sicily, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands.
3
Scaly crickets have bodies covered in tiny scales, a bit like the dust on a butterfly's wings.
you asked
Most asked questions about Hairy scale-cricket
?Where does the hairy scale-cricket live?
Along the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
?Is the hairy scale-cricket dangerous?
No. It is a small harmless cricket.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arachnocephalus vestitus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Mogoplistidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Mogoplistidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Arachnocephalus vestitus (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 Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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