Two-striped grasshopper
The two-striped grasshopper is a big, yellowish green grasshopper. Two pale yellow stripes run along its back, from above its eyes to the tips of its wings. It has strong back legs for big jumps.
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Fun facts
Its eggs spend the winter in the soil and hatch in late April or May.
The babies change their skin five times before they become grown-ups with wings.
When it is colder than about 25 degrees, it stops eating.
It needs special fats in its food. Without them, its wings come out crumpled.
When food runs out, they sometimes even eat each other.
Most asked questions about Two-striped grasshopper
?What does the two-striped grasshopper eat?
Many kinds of plants, including farm crops. It likes flowers and seed pods best.
?How big is the two-striped grasshopper?
It is about 3 to 5.5 centimetres long, quite big for a grasshopper.
?Why is it called two-striped?
Because two pale yellow stripes run along the top of its body.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Melanoplus bivittatus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Yellow-striped grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Melanoplus bivittatus (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 Jarek Tuszyński. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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