wart-biter
noun
A large mottled green or brown bush cricket that inhabits coarse grassland in Europe.
- Decticus verrucivorous, family Tettigoniidae.
- This is a method to analyze habitat selection of a bush-cricket (the wart-biter, Decticus verrucivorus).
- Because wart-biters bask in the sun, ambient temperature is of less importance than incoming radiation from the sun.
Origin
Mid 19th century: so named from the reputed former use in Sweden of such crickets to bite off warts.
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