#4059 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Common Green Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Wekkertje ·Omocestus viridulus
📍 Dwingeloo, Netherlands
📍 Scheerseveldweg, Coevorden, Drenthe, NL
📍 Scheerseveldweg, Coevorden, Drenthe, NL
📍 7707 PJ Balkbrug, Nederland
📍 6731 Otterlo, Netherlands
📍 Woldlakebos, 8371 Scheerwolde, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Zdeňka Nováková · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Billy Lindblom · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Zdeňka Nováková · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Dwingeloo, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Scheerseveldweg, Coevorden, Drenthe, NL:© Andre Hosper · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Scheerseveldweg, Coevorden, Drenthe, NL:© Andre Hosper · CC BY 4.0
- 8. 7707 PJ Balkbrug, Nederland:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 9. 6731 Otterlo, Netherlands:© Peter · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Woldlakebos, 8371 Scheerwolde, Nederland:© corotauria · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Omocestus viridulus is a grasshopper of the Acrididae family.
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 52 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 9,827 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Green Grasshopper
- Nederlands
- Wekkertje
- scientific name
- Omocestus viridulus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Acrididae
- sightings in NL
- 52
- sightings in Europe
- 7,747
- sightings worldwide
- 9,827
- GBIF records in NL
- 18,400
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Acrididae
#3960 📷 7Blue-winged Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Blauwvleugelsprinkhaan
Oedipoda caerulescens
LC 👀 400 in NL
#3965 📷 10Mottled Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Knopsprietje
Myrmeleotettix maculatus
👀 354 in NL
#3967 📷 10Common Field Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Bruine sprinkhaan
Chorthippus brunneus
LC 👀 351 in NL
#3980 📷 10Large Marsh Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Moerassprinkhaan
Stethophyma grossum
👀 255 in NL
#3982 📷 9Meadow Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Krasser
Pseudochorthippus parallelus
👀 242 in NL
#3992 📷 10Lesser Marsh Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Kustsprinkhaan
Chorthippus albomarginatus
👀 191 in NL
#4058 📷 7Bow-winged Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Ratelaar
Chorthippus biguttulus
👀 53 in NL
#4068 📷 10Gold Grasshopper
🇳🇱 Gouden sprinkhaan
Chrysochraon dispar
👀 41 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 132419, Wikidata Q1009929, GBIF 1710755, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.