Least ConcernField Grasshopper
Chorthippus brunneus
45 countries153 parks
Species group · Insects
WAnimals has 2 species of grasshopper, spread across 2 families (Acrididae, Tettigoniidae).
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 45 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
It stridulates by rubbing a row of tiny pegs on the inside of the hind femur against the edge of the wing, a different mechanism from that of crickets, which rub their two wings together.
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Each grasshopper species has a song of its own, and many can be told apart reliably only by listening to them rather than looking at them.
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Its colouring depends in part on the substrate the nymph grows up on, so that individuals of very different appearance live side by side in the same meadow.
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Its ears are on the tibiae of the front legs, in the form of two slits leading to tympanic membranes.
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Despite looking like a peaceable herbivore, it hunts caterpillars, flies and other insects, and can bite hard if held.
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The female carries a long, sabre-shaped ovipositor with which she inserts the eggs into the soil, and which is often mistaken for a sting.
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