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03-09-2010, 03:42 PM
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i was in my garden today and this jumped on me from the lavender bush.
i have never seen one before, i researched it a bit and think its a speckled bush cricket, is this right? i live in Wetherby in Yorkshire and it says they don't live up here though. I presume its just wandered up because of the nice weather? It was amazingly beautiful.   |
03-09-2010, 04:03 PM
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Yes, it's a female Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) nymph. |
03-09-2010, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Gatekeeper  Yes, it's a female Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) nymph. | Not a nymph, but an adult female. |
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Originally Posted by sarahjane i was in my garden today and this jumped on me from the lavender bush.
i have never seen one before, i researched it a bit and think its a speckled bush cricket, is this right? i live in Wetherby in Yorkshire and it says they don't live up here though. I presume its just wandered up because of the nice weather? It was amazingly beautiful. | Beautiful beast. This is the distribution map in the NBN gateway, with some northern - sparser -records, including Yorkshire. Given both males and females are flightless, I don't think they are able to move that rapidly even with nice weather. Maybe the record is interesting and you could submit it to the appropriate society? (sorry but I cannot help there!)
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Originally Posted by Africa Beautiful beast. This is the distribution map in the NBN gateway, with some northern - sparser -records, including Yorkshire. Given both males and females are flightless, I don't think they are able to move that rapidly even with nice weather. Maybe the record is interesting and you could submit it to the appropriate society? (sorry but I cannot help there!) | The Orthoptera Recording Scheme would be happy to have the record. | | |
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