Handsome trig
The handsome trig is a tiny cricket with a bright red head and chest, a shiny black body and pale green legs. It is only about as long as your fingernail is wide. The female's wings are round and shiny, so she looks a bit like a little beetle.
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Fun facts
Its song is a loud, rattling trill.
A male sits between curved leaves to make his song louder, like singing into a loudspeaker.
A male brings a female a little present. If she does not want it, he eats it himself.
The females lay their eggs in the trunks of trees.
Most asked questions about Handsome trig
?What does the handsome trig eat?
It eats flowers and leaves, and also small insects and their eggs.
?How big is the handsome trig?
It is only about 7 to 9 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phyllopalpus pulchellus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Trigonidiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Trigonidiidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Red-headed bush cricket, Handsome bush cricket
Where the facts come from
- Phyllopalpus pulchellus (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 WanderingMogwai. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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