Stats

Lifespan: A few months
Size: Large
Diet: Omnivore
Activity: Nocturnal
Social: Solitary
Biome: Temperate grassland
Range: Europe
Movement: Walking
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Camouflage
Status: Common

About

The great green bush-cricket is one of Europe's largest katydids, reaching up to 4 cm in length and draped in vivid leaf-green that makes it nearly invisible among summer foliage. Males produce a loud, relentless churring song by rubbing a filelike ridge on one forewing against a scraper on the other — a sound that can carry over 100 metres on warm evenings.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A small egg is laid on or near the larval food source and hatches within days or weeks.
2.
juvenile
An immature insect feeds and molts, growing through successive instars.
3.
subadult
A near-adult insect has wing buds or near-mature form, one molt away from full size.
4.
adult
Fully grown, with full wings and adult coloration.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Genus: Tettigonia
Species: Tettigonia viridissima