#4033 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Oak Bush-cricket

🇳🇱 Boomsprinkhaan ·Meconema thalassinum

LCleast concern 🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

Meconema thalassinum is an insect in the family Tettigoniidae, known in North America as the drumming katydid and in Europe as the oak bush-cricket . It is native to Europe, but was introduced to the United States, becoming established first in the west of Long Island and having since extended its range there to Rhode Island and Scarsdale, Stony Brook, and Ithaca, New York .

base stats

NL sightings 77iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 19,761iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).