Listen to the great green bush-cricket
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About the great green bush-cricket
The great green bush-cricket is a insect in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera).
What does the great green bush-cricket sound like?
Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
From Wikipedia
Tettigonia viridissima, the great green bush-cricket, is a large species of bush-cricket belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae.
Related insects in the genus Tettigonia
More from the family Tettigoniidae
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Sickle-bearing bush-cricket
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Dark bush-cricket
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Short-winged cone-head
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Roesel's bush-cricket
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Oak bush cricket
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Sierra Nevadan Saddle Bush-cricket
Baetica ustulata
Speckled bush-cricket
Leptophyes punctatissima
Bog bush-cricket
Metrioptera brachyptera
Long-winged conehead
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Frequently asked questions
What does a great green bush-cricket sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the great green bush-cricket on this page. Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
What family does the great green bush-cricket belong to?
The great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- BioAcoustica 394-5 Tettigonia viridissima 360r2 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Tettigonia viridissima - sound by Baudewijn Odé – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q261181 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Tettigonia viridissima – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Didier Descouens – CC BY-SA 4.0