David Element
Wildlife
Photography and Digital Video Images
________________________________________________________Grasshoppers
and Crickets 1 – Dark Bush Crickets
DARK BUSH
CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (m)
DARK BUSH
CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (f)
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (f)
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (f)
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (f)
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (m)
nymph
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (m) nymph
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (m) nymph
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (m) nymph
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (m) nymph
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (m) nymph
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera (m) nymph
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera
griseoaptera nymph
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera griseoaptera nymph
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera griseoaptera nymph
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera griseoaptera nymph
DARK BUSH CRICKET Pholidoptera griseoaptera nymph
·
The
Dark Bush Cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera is one of the easier bush crickets to
identify in the UK but the same does not apply in Continental Europe where
there are several similar species. Woodland margins in southern counties are the
favoured habitat of these insects and they will often sun themselves on the
upper surfaces of leaves on bright afternoons.
RECOMMENDED
REFERENCES:
·
'Grasshoppers and Allied Insects of Great
Britain and Ireland', Judith A. Marshall and E.C.M. Haes, Harley Books, 1988. ISBN 0 946589 13 5
·
'Grasshoppers and Crickets of Surrey', David W. Baldock, Surrey
Wildlife Trust, 1998. ISBN 0 9526065 4 2 - see: http://www.surreywildlifetrust.co.uk/
for further information about the Surrey
Wildlife Atlas series. This comprehensively illustrated book
contains reproductions of the song diagrams (for Surrey species, i.e. most of
the British fauna) originally published in 'Grasshoppers, Crickets and Cockroaches of the British Isles'
by David Ragge. These books are
unfortunately out of print, but for those with an interest in identification by
sound there are tape cassettes and CDs available - *see below. The use of bat
detectors for the identification of orthopterans is detailed in this book. It
is likely that many observers will need them as the ability to hear high
frequency sounds tends to deteriorate by the time that the necessary
identification skills have been developed!
·
'A Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Crickets
of Britain and Northern Europe', Heiko Bellman, Collins, 1988 ISBN 0
00-219852-5
·
‘The Grasshoppers of Greece’, Luc
Willemse, Roy Kleukers
& Baudewiljn Odé, EIS Kenniscentrum
Insecten & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2018 (in English – an excellent and comprehensively
illustrated reference work covering Greece but also very useful reference
material for Orthoptera in other parts of the Mediterranean region. ISBN
978-90-76261-15-7
·
‘Die Heuschrecken Deutschlands und Nordtirols Bestimmen Beobachten Schützen’, Fischer, Steinlechner, Zehm, Poniatowski, Fartmann, Beckmann, Stettmer, Quelle & Meyer, 2016 ISBN 978-3-494-01670-2 (text
written in German)
·
'British Wildlife', British Wildlife Publishing,
ISSN 0958-0956 contains regular Orthoptera reports by Dr Peter Sutton – see below.
* FOR
SOUND IDENTIFICATION:
- 'A Sound Guide
to the Grasshoppers and Allied Insects of Great Britain and Ireland' by J.F. Burton
and D.R. Ragge is a tape containing the songs of
26 species
- 'A Sound Guide
to the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Western Europe' by D.R. Ragge and W.J. Reynolds is a twin set of CDs
containing the songs of 170 European species (including all the British
examples)
- The Environmental Records Centre for
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly website has very
informative pages which contain sound recordings and sonograms for the
grasshoppers and bush crickets found in that area: http://www.erccis.co.uk/species/cricketcalls.htm http://www.erccis.co.uk/species/grasshoppercalls.htm
ORTHOPTERA
RECORDS:
- Dr. Peter Sutton is the National Orthoptera Recorder.
He may be contacted at: petersutton@freeuk.com. The Orthoptera Recording Scheme
Newsletter may be downloaded from the Biological Records Centre
Website:
http://www.brc.ac.uk/brcNewsletterResults.asp?news_id=24
RECOMMENDED
WEBSITES:
- http://www.tettigonia.com/ is an
enormously elaborate scientific database and a valuable resource for
researching orthopteran taxonomy. Photographs of huge numbers of set
specimens are available for on-line reference. Unfortunately, the colours
of these insects fade after death, so full identification will require
close examination of the morphology.
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