Bug FAQUpland Green Bush-cricket
Tettigonia cantans · Order: Orthoptera · Family: Tettigoniidae
Adult males are 20 to 30 mm long and females 29 to 35 mm. They live in moist to moderately dry cool places like fens, marshes, mountain meadows, clear-cuts, woodland edges, potato fields and dry limestone grasslands.
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How to recognize it
Wings are short and wide, covering only the end of the abdomen.
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Size
Males grow to 20 to 30 mm and females to 29 to 35 mm in length.
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Where it lives
Also occurs in potato fields and on nutrient-poor dry limestone grasslands with taller vegetation.
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What it eats
Feeds mainly on other insects but also eats plant material.
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Life cycle
Eggs overwinter in the soil, at least for two years.
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When you see it
Adults are present from mid-June through October and are active from noon until night, with males singing.
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Where it comes from
Present across most of Europe, the eastern Palearctic, the Near East and North Africa. Its range extends from the Pyrenees to China.
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Same family (Tettigoniidae)
Great Green Bush-cricketTettigonia viridissimaCan bite
Dark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoaptera
Mediterranean KatydidPhaneroptera nanaDamages trees, gardens or crops
Fork-tailed Bush KatydidScudderia furcataDamages trees, gardens or crops
Speckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissima
Roesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeseliiSources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tettigonia_cantans
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