Listen to the wart-biter
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About the wart-biter
The wart-biter is a insect in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera).
What does the wart-biter 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
The wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) is a bush-cricket in the family Tettigoniidae. Its common and scientific names derive from the eighteenth-century Swedish practice of allowing the crickets to nibble at warts to remove them.
Related insects in the genus Decticus
More from the family Tettigoniidae
Great green bush-cricket
Tettigonia viridissima
Upland green bush-cricket
Tettigonia cantans
Sickle-bearing bush-cricket
Phaneroptera falcata
Dark bush-cricket
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Short-winged cone-head
Conocephalus dorsalis
Roesel's bush-cricket
Metrioptera roeselii
Oak bush cricket
Meconema thalassinum
Sierra Nevadan Saddle Bush-cricket
Baetica ustulata
Speckled bush-cricket
Leptophyes punctatissima
Bog bush-cricket
Metrioptera brachyptera
Long-winged conehead
Conocephalus fuscus
Frequently asked questions
What does a wart-biter sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the wart-biter 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 wart-biter belong to?
The wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- BioAcoustica 392-5 Decticus verrucivorus 344 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Decticus verrucivorus 20140731 by Gilles San Martin – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 424-8 Decticus verrucivorus f.aprutianus 603r6 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 597 3 Decticus verrucivorus 003r1 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 566 2 Decticus verrucivorus 783b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 566 1 Decticus verrucivorus 783a – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q958048 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Wart-biter – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by xulescu_g – CC BY-SA 2.0