David Element
Wildlife Photography and Digital Video Images
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Grasshoppers and Crickets 17 – Mediterranean Wart-biters or White-faced Bush
Crickets
MEDITERRANEAN WART-BITER OR
WHITE-FACED BUSH CRICKET
Decticus albifrons
(m)
MEDITERRANEAN WART-BITER OR
WHITE-FACED BUSH CRICKET
Decticus albifrons
(m)
MEDITERRANEAN WART-BITER OR
WHITE-FACED BUSH CRICKET
Decticus albifrons
(m)
MEDITERRANEAN
WART-BITER OR WHITE-FACED
BUSH CRICKET Decticus albifrons
(m) MEDITERRANEAN
WART-BITER OR WHITE-FACED
BUSH CRICKET Decticus albifrons
(m)
MEDITERRANEAN WART-BITER OR
WHITE-FACED BUSH CRICKET
Decticus albifrons
(m)
MEDITERRANEAN WART-BITER OR
WHITE-FACED BUSH CRICKET
Decticus albifrons
(m)
MEDITERRANEAN WART-BITER OR
WHITE-FACED BUSH CRICKET
Decticus albifrons
(m)
MEDITERRANEAN WART-BITER OR WHITE-FACED BUSH CRICKET Decticus albifrons (m)
- The Mediterranean Wart-biter
or White-faced
Bush Cricket Decticus albifrons is a large and very
heavily built but rather unobtrusive insect which belongs to the same
genus as the Wart
Biter D. verrucivorus. These
bush crickets rely on their cryptic camouflage for protection. The insects
shown here were photographed in the South of France. It is by no means
uncommon to encounter orthopterans with missing hind legs. Their loss seems
to have little consequence to their owners as they can jump quite
effectively with one. They are probably lost during ecdysis if potential
predators have not been responsible. The final three images have been
scanned from transparencies.
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