Identifying animals on our land (more coming soon) |
Ants, Bees and Wasps | Beetles | Bugs | Butterflies | Crickets and Grasshoppers | Flies | Mayflies, Dragonflies and Damselflies | Moths | Spiders |
Amphibians and Reptiles | Birds | Mammals |
Crickets and Grasshoppers 2024 - 39 UK species |
Family: Tettigonlidae - Bush Crickets (13 species) | |
Dark bush-cricket (male) - Pholidoptera griseoaptera Allotment, seen throughout August and early Sept, males and females ![]() Photographed 1st September 2024 |
Long-winged conehead - Conocephalus fuscus Allotment, seen once in August ![]() Photographed 21st August 2024 |
Roesel's bush-cricket - Metrioptera roeselii Oak field, seen once in August ![]() Photographed 10th August 2024 |
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Family: Acrididae - Grasshoppers (14 species) | |
Meadow grasshopper - Pseudochorthippus parallelus
Insect
Very common especially in Oak field and allotment July to September ![]() Photographed 14th July 2024 |