cricket, cicada or grasshopper?

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	cricket, cicada or grasshopper? Aug 23, 2015 20:29:00 GMT grindle likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Aug 23, 2015 20:29:00 GMT Any ideas?

Fractal Top Member Posts: 1,859	cricket, cicada or grasshopper? Aug 23, 2015 20:31:48 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fractal on Aug 23, 2015 20:31:48 GMT Definitely a Cricket

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	cricket, cicada or grasshopper? Aug 23, 2015 20:42:59 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Aug 23, 2015 20:42:59 GMT That is what I thought Steve. Am I correct in thinking it is not a native species?

Cherry Global Moderator Posts: 17,970	cricket, cicada or grasshopper? Aug 24, 2015 4:52:26 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cherry on Aug 24, 2015 4:52:26 GMT I have never heard a cricket here, but I love the sound in Australia. There are a lot of varieties.

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	cricket, cicada or grasshopper? Aug 24, 2015 20:35:50 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Aug 24, 2015 20:35:50 GMT Unfortunately, if that is an alien species then it needs to be reported and killed.

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cricket, cicada or grasshopper? Aug 24, 2015 21:16:19 GMT grindle and Fractal like this

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Post by SueA on Aug 24, 2015 21:16:19 GMT

There are lots of native species of crickets in this country, that one looks like maybe a dark bush cricket, I had one hop in the back kitchen at the old house, found the pic. here :-
(Edit - probably a grasshopper

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Had grasshoppers in the old garden too:-

Last Edit: Aug 25, 2015 21:32:10 GMT by SueA

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	cricket, cicada or grasshopper? Aug 25, 2015 19:58:16 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Aug 25, 2015 19:58:16 GMT The one I have posted though Sue is totally different.

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cricket, cicada or grasshopper? Aug 25, 2015 20:56:16 GMT daitheplant likes this

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Post by SueA on Aug 25, 2015 20:56:16 GMT

It definitely looks like some kind of bush cricket though, there are lots of native ones & they come in different colour forms & shapes, the one in your pic. looks like a male as it doesn't have a central ovipositor at the back. it could be a bog bush cricket if it's greenish underneath or a Roesel's bush cricket or lots of similar ones found in the U.K. Actually looking back at the first photo of the one in our old house I don't think that is a bush cricket at all now, it's more likely a small grasshopper, just guessed what it was & labelled the pic. wrong at the time!

Last Edit: Aug 25, 2015 21:29:41 GMT by SueA

Fractal Top Member Posts: 1,859	cricket, cicada or grasshopper? Aug 26, 2015 15:25:49 GMT SueA and daitheplant like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fractal on Aug 26, 2015 15:25:49 GMT Probably a native dark coloured phase. Don't kill it

sweetpea Top Member Posts: 5,982	cricket, cicada or grasshopper? Sept 10, 2015 15:18:50 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetpea on Sept 10, 2015 15:18:50 GMT I think this one is definately an an alien species
	I'll get around to it eventually

daitheplant Top Member Posts: 6,385	cricket, cicada or grasshopper? Sept 10, 2015 19:23:43 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by daitheplant on Sept 10, 2015 19:23:43 GMT Did you pose for that yourself Jim? Same colour. Orange.

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