#3965 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Mottled Grasshopper

🇳🇱 Knopsprietje ·Myrmeleotettix maculatus

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Fraser Simpson · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Bart Wursten · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Laurence Livermore · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Gennep, Nederland:© wasdadan · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Bruggelen, Ugchelen, Gelderland, NL:© annemargreet · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Gelderland, NL:© invasive_nerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Neerpelt, 3910 Pelt, Belgium:© Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

It is found across the Palearctic east to Siberia. In the north, it is spread from the British Isles to Scandinavia and Russia, north to about the Arctic Circle, in the south to Morocco, over the south of Spain, Calabria and Greece to Turkey . They are found from sea level to about 2,500 meters above sea level, for example in the French Alps and...

base stats

NL sightings 354iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,310iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 354 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #24 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
5,310 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1815 (211 years ago).