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Predatory Bush-cricket
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Predatory Bush-cricket

Saga pedo

Saga pedo is a species of bush cricket, spread throughout the European part of the Mediterranean, and Asia as far east as China. It is a wingless bush cricket, with the body size of up to 12 centimetres (4.7 in), which makes it one of the largest European insects. Colloquially known as the predatory bush cricket, or the Spiked Magician (due to the "enchanting" manner in which it waves its forelimbs as it approaches its prey), it...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 64206.