#4117 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Wart-biter
🇳🇱 Wrattenbijter ·Decticus verrucivorus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Иван Тисленко · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Irene Grassi · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Norbert Sauberer · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The wart-biter ( Decticus verrucivorus ) is a bush-cricket in the family Tettigoniidae. Its English and scientific names derive from the age-old practice of using the cricket to bite warts from the skin.
base stats
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).
fun facts
- Spotted 3 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 17,082 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Wart-biter
- Nederlands
- Wrattenbijter
- scientific name
- Decticus verrucivorus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Tettigoniidae
- sightings in NL
- 3
- sightings in Europe
- 14,582
- sightings worldwide
- 17,082
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,235
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Tettigoniidae
#3945 📷 9Great Green Bush-cricket
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Tettigonia viridissima
👀 1.5k in NL
#3947 📷 8Speckled Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Struiksprinkhaan
Leptophyes punctatissima
LC 👀 1.3k in NL
#3952 📷 10Southern Oak Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke boomsprinkhaan
Meconema meridionale
LC 👀 858 in NL
#3972 📷 10Long-winged Conehead
🇳🇱 Zuidelijk spitskopje
Conocephalus fuscus
👀 296 in NL
#3999 📷 10Dark Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Bramensprinkhaan
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
👀 147 in NL
#4015 📷 10Roesel's Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Greppelsprinkhaan
Roeseliana roeselii
👀 106 in NL
#4025 📷 10Short-winged Conehead
🇳🇱 Gewoon spitskopje
Conocephalus dorsalis
👀 91 in NL
#4030 📷 10Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket
🇳🇱 Sikkelsprinkhaan
Phaneroptera falcata
👀 85 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 147950, Wikidata Q958048, GBIF 1690685, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.