#3992 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Lesser Marsh Grasshopper

🇳🇱 Kustsprinkhaan ·Chorthippus albomarginatus

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Kim Falck · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Laurence Livermore · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Benoit NABHOLZ · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © znazvo · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Benoit NABHOLZ · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. 1815 LG Alkmaar, Nederland:© Ralph · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Middenmeer, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Krimpen aan de Lek, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. De Slufter, De Cocksdorp, Noord-Holland, NL:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Chorthippus albomarginatus , the lesser marsh grasshopper , is a common grasshopper of European grassland both damp-marshy and (despite its name) dry, including salt-marsh and coastal habitats.

base stats

NL sightings 191iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,180iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).