#4030 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket

🇳🇱 Sikkelsprinkhaan ·Phaneroptera falcata

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Хаматов Гадылхан · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Paul B. · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Armand Turpel · CC BY 4.0
5. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 3737 MP Groenekan, Nederland:© Marsel · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
8. Baarn, Utrecht, NL:© rijn0985 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Leenderheide, Nederland:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
10. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Phaneroptera falcata , the sickle-bearing bush-cricket , is a species of bush-cricket belonging to the family Tettigoniidae subfamily Phaneropterinae. It is herbivorous and commonly measures 24 to 36 mm long. It lives mainly in scrub and grasslands areas.

base stats

NL sightings 85iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,174iNaturalist 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).