Which Bush Cricket?

[goosey]

When I saw this last night I thought it was a speckled bush cricket, now I have seen the photo I see it has silverish horizontal stripes. The others I have seen in the garden have had a vertical brown stripe. Can someone put me straight - thanks.

[thunder]

If you mean the stripes round the body, these are just the stripes between the segments. Looks like Speckled Bush-cricket to me. I suppose it could be another, non-British species if you took it in Ijmuiden. Have you any pics of the ones with brown stripes on?

henrya

[goosey]

Originally Posted by thunder

If you mean the stripes round the body, these are just the stripes between the segments. Looks like Speckled Bush-cricket to me. I suppose it could be another, non-British species if you took it in Ijmuiden. Have you any pics of the ones with brown stripes on?

henrya

Thanks henrya, yes I did mean the stripes around the body, they look a bit like metal bands.
Here is another photo of what I think is a Speckled Bush Cricket, which was taken a month ago today.

[Gill Catton]

I think a speckled bush too for both, the first has just eaten too many pies

[asheleaf]

just wondering if its a matter of male/female differences? The first photo being a female, the second male?

Ashe

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by asheleaf

just wondering if its a matter of male/female differences? The first photo being a female, the second male?

Ashe

Both look normal for their respective sexes to me!

[goosey]

Thanks all, another question answered .