Grasshoppers and Bush-crickets
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Grasshoppers and Bush-crickets
Grasshoppers and bush-crickets are the most common species of the orthoptera order to be seen in Dorset. This includes the two conehead species as well as the peculiar looking groundhopper. True crickets belong to this family but are rarely seen.
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Displaying 1 - 15 of 15| Species featured in this book | Scientific Name | Title |
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| Common Groundhopper | Tetrix undulata | Common Groundhopper: an ugly bug |
| Roesels Bush Cricket | Metrioptera roeselii | Roesels Bush Cricket: spreading its wings |
| Speckled Bush Cricket | Leptophyes punctatissima | Speckled Bush-cricket: scratching about |
| Long Winged Conehead | Conocephalus discolor | Long Winged Conehead: twixt and between |
| Short Winged Conehead | Conocephalus dorsalis | Short Winged Conehead: expect the unexpected |
| Great Green Bush Cricket | Tettigonia viridissima | Great Green Bush-cricket: bite your hand off |
| Grey Bush-cricket | Platycleis albopunctata | Grey Bush-cricket: albo (white) punctata (spotted) |
| Dark Bush Cricket | Pholidoptera griseoaptera | Dark Bush-cricket: the dark side |
| Common Green Grasshopper | Omocestus viridulus | Common Green Grasshopper: an ambiguous common name |
| Woodland Grasshopper | Omocestus rufipes | Woodland Grasshopper: in glades and rides |
| Common Field Grasshopper | Chorthippus brunneus | Common Field Grasshopper: but uncommon in grassy fields! |
| Striped Winged Grasshopper | Stenobothrus lineatus | Stripe Winged Grasshopper: cracking the code |
| Mottled Grasshopper | Myrmeleotettix maculatus | Mottled Grasshopper: welcome to the club |
| Heath Grasshopper | Chorthippus vagans | Heath Grasshopper: amongst the heather |
| Meadow Grasshopper | Chorthippus parallelus | Meadow Grasshopper: jumping Jack Flash |
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Displaying 1 - 3 of 3| Other species not featured but found in Dorset | Scientific Name | Status |
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| Bog Bush-cricket | Metrioptera brachyptera | A bush-cricket of wet bogs, not uncommon in Dorset but hard to find due to habitat preference. |
| Large Marsh Grasshopper | Stethophyma grossum | A local species found in damp habitats. |
| Lesser Marsh Grasshopper | Chorthippus albomarginatus | A local species found in damp habitats |
This book is made up of the segments listed below. Click the segment title for information about specie within that segment.
| Segment | Description |
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| Bush Crickets |
Bush-crickets tend to be bulky insects and incredibly long antennae. |
| Grasshoppers |
Grasshoppers are much more slender than the generally bulky bush-cricket and have much shorter antennae. |
