Bug FAQSickle-bearing Bush-cricket
Phaneroptera falcata · Order: Orthoptera · Family: Tettigoniidae
Also called: Common Sickle Bush-cricket
The sickle-bearing bush-cricket is an orthopteran in the subfamily Phaneropterinae. It lives in warm scrub, grasslands, dry shrubbery, sand pits and gardens across southern and central Europe. It feeds mainly on plants.
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How to recognize it
The sickle-bearing bush-cricket belongs to the orthopteran subfamily Phaneropterinae.
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Where it lives
It inhabits warm scrub, grasslands, dry shrubbery, sand pits and gardens.
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What it eats
It is mostly herbivorous.
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Where it comes from
It occurs in Europe, mainly in the southern and central parts of the continent.
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Questions people ask
Where is the sickle-bearing bush-cricket found?
It lives in warm scrub, grasslands, dry shrubbery, sand pits and gardens across southern and central Europe.
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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/Phaneroptera_falcata
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