Sunday, 1 September 2024
Neighbourly Bush Cricket
On Wednesday 28th August on a particularly sunny early evening, I was talking to Leon our neighbour and he said he had a 'large Grasshopper' which he picked off his side of the fence and handed it to me and I said "Oh, its a Conehead" and I put in our garden for a few pics and here they are. It is of course, a Speckled Bush Cricket, and not a Conehead & I put it on some Clematis where it soon crawled out of sight.
POSTSCRIPT: My thanks to Rob J. who kindly corrected my rather senior moment, of course its a Speckled Bush Cricket and not a Conehead! We have them regularly on a bush in our garden in the late summer
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This is a Speckled Bush-cricket. Coneheads typically have straighter build, closer to that of a grasshopper, and less uniform in colour than this. If you look you can see the fine, small speckles all over this. :)
Thanks Robert for kindly correcting my senior moment! Of course it's a Speckled Bush Cricket, we see them regularly on a bush in our garden & around our mint plant in late summer, I have corrected & updated the post
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