Common Green Grasshopper

The Common Green Grasshopper is mostly green in colour. The male can be olive-brown but the female is always dorsally green. Their eyes are either brown or yellow.

It can be found in coarse grass in meadows, hillside pastures, parkland and along woodland rides. Their preferred habitat consists of areas with longer grass. The grasshopper nymphs appear in April and moult several times before becoming a fully winged adult in June. They survive through to November.

Males display to females by rubbing their legs against their wings to create a ‘song’. Males find a female quickly and mate. The female Common Green Grasshopper then refrains from singing until she has laid at least one cluster of eggs. After mating, the eggs are laid in the top layer of soil or near the root of the grass stalks, ready to hatch the following spring.

A common and widespread species in Britain.