David Element
Wildlife
Photography and Digital Video Images
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Grasshoppers and Crickets 30 – Common Field Grasshoppers
COMMON
FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus
COMMON
FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus (f)
COMMON
FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus (f) ovipositing
COMMON
FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus
COMMON
FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus (m)
COMMON
FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus
COMMON
FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus
COMMON
FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus (m)
COMMON
FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus
COMMON
FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus
COMMON
FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus (m)
COMMON FIELD GRASSHOPPER Chorthippus brunneus
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The visual identification of grasshoppers may be far
from straightforward as the colours and patterns may be extremely variable
within a species. This is the reason why sound recordings of these insects
stridulating are used for site surveys! This certainly applies to the Common Field Grasshopper Chorthippus
brunneus and it is therefore necessary to
look for certain key identification features, namely the shape and markings of
the pronotum (note the shape of the white marginal markings) and the presence
of convex costal bulges on the lower edges of the forewings (these may be seen
by looking just above the point at which the hind femur is attached to the trochanter).
As the insects are often partly or fully obscured by vegetation it may be
necessary to catch them and use magnification if they are not being photographed.
In the UK there are few widely distributed and commonly found grasshopper species
and the rarer ones will need to be searched for at their known locations which
in some cases may be very specialised habitats. The Continental European grasshopper
fauna is much larger by comparison and far more testing of an entomologist’s identification
skills!
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