the online meeting place for all who love our amphibians and reptiles |
|
Native Crickets & Grasshoppers. |
Post Reply | Page <123 |
Author | |
Peter Vaughan
Senior Member Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 172 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
I saw this Dark Bush Cricket (long anntenae cropped off the image to reduce file size) yesterday afternoon at Bartley Heath, on the trunk of an oak tree. She had lost one hind-leg, but was still mobile. Grateful for advice on what the white object is on the end of her abdomen, and what she is doing in the second shot. A suggestion from a fellow observer is that it is a sperm packet (spermatophore) and she is trying to bite it - which would match a description in "Grasshoppers and allied insects" by Marshall and Haes. Can anyone confirm that?
|
|
Peter Vaughan
|
|
Suzi
Senior Member Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1025 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Nice pictures. I saw one on the coast path at Budleigh Salterton yesterday and heard lots more.
|
|
Suz
|
|
Dasaan
Member Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 13 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
I found this fellow at Brook Meadow in Emsworth, Hants a couple of months ago.
He(edit: um, apparently she) became quite popular at work when I took some photos in. Edited by Dasaan |
|
Peter Vaughan
Senior Member Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 172 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Nice picture Dasaan. I went to grasshopper and cricket identification workshop in Hampshire yesterday. The colourfull beast above appears to be the purple form of the Meadow Grasshopper, Chlorthippus parallelus (which would make it a female!). The course tutor brought along a live specimen of a Mole Cricket, shown below. An amazing creature - looks like at least two insects bolted together to me. It is recorded as a UK species although in reality may be an accidental foreign import which occasionally establishes a breeding colony here (there is one in the New Forest). Lives underground - and has powerful front legs for digging. Whether its small wings would actually enable it to fly is also a matter for debate - apparently there are reports of it getting airborn but anatomically that looks unlikely. Peter |
|
Peter Vaughan
|
|
Robert V
Senior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1264 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Hi all, how about this from last week. Rousell's I believe R |
|
RobV
|
|
Post Reply | Page <123 |
Tweet
|
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |