3 Cracking Little Critters For I.d Please

wildmanofthewoods · #1 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 06:40 PM

I have just had a rainy time in Scotland so i decided to head south for the last few days of my holiday.
I had 4 days in Sunny Dorset, where i managed all 6 species of reptile and some cracking insects including these i can't positively I.D. your help will be greatly appreciated thankyou.

Thankyou....

Gill Catton · #2 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 06:45 PM

forester moth, field grasshopper and what looks almost like a cross between a Roesel's bush cricket and a dark bush cricket....Based on your location I'd plump for the dark bush cricket - though I'll just go away and look up bog bush cricket

hmm I'm fairly swayed by boh bush cricket - though I don't know much about its distribution and my book is at work....... the green underside and legs and white edge to the pronotum point to bog bush cricket did it have a gree top as well - apparently the top of the head and pronotum can be green or brown in this species....

ron1863 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 06:56 PM

Lovely shots even though I don't know what they are

wildmanofthewoods · #4 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 07:01 PM

Many thanks Gill,

I was thinking Bog Bush Cricket myself but i am a total novice with insects really.... Unfortunately i'm colour blind so i can't help with the colours but was amazed by its behaviour acted more like a spider than a cricket, really hard to photograph they kept crawling into the deep undergrowth when disturbed luckily this one landed where i was already settled.

The field Grasshopper stumped me i didn't realise they were as well marked as that and i found it in a marsh while looking for large marsh grasshoppers.

The Forester moth was actually spotted on my way home at Martin Down, i can't say i've ever noticed one before but was amazed by its metallic colouring .

cheers

Gill Catton · #5 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by wildmanofthewoods

Many thanks Gill,

I was thinking Bog Bush Cricket myself but i am a total novice with insects really.... Unfortunately i'm colour blind so i can't help with the colours but was amazed by its behaviour acted more like a spider than a cricket, really hard to photograph they kept crawling into the deep undergrowth when disturbed luckily this one landed where i was already settled.

The field Grasshopper stumped me i didn't realise they were as well marked as that and i found it in a marsh while looking for large marsh grasshoppers.

The Forester moth was actually spotted on my way home at Martin Down, i can't say i've ever noticed one before but was amazed by its metallic colouring .

cheers

The hairy chest gives the field cricket away esp in combination with wings longer than the abdomen.

The forester moth is ace I only saw them for the first time last year a day flying moth...

Do you have any other pics of the cricket?

aeshna5 · #6 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 07:05 PM

The BC is a Bog Bush-cricket. Agree with Gill's other Ids.

wildmanofthewoods · #7 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 07:16 PM

Great Green Bush Crickets..Male & Female

Raft Spider

Another Bush Cricket , Maybe Great Green Again??

wildmanofthewoods · #8 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton

The hairy chest gives the field cricket away esp in combination with wings longer than the abdomen.

The forester moth is ace I only saw them for the first time last year a day flying moth...

Do you have any other pics of the cricket?

Thanks for the info i'll remember that it always helps

The only other pic shows it at exactly the same angle, sorry

wildmanofthewoods · #9 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 07:21 PM

Thanks Ron and aeshna5

Gill Catton · #10 (**permalink**) 03-07-2008, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by aeshna5

The BC is a Bog Bush-cricket. Agree with Gill's other Ids.

Yey!! I love it when a hunch comes good! I've yet to see one of these in the flesh

wildmanofthewoods · #11 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 02:58 PM

Sorry folks, here's another couple for i.d, if you can help? thanks

GuyF · #12 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 04:52 PM

The first is a Keeled Skimmer, lots of those about on the Dorset heaths at this time of year, the second is a Great Green Bush-cricket nymph.
These are all very nice shots!
Guy

asheleaf · #13 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton

Yey!! I love it when a hunch comes good! I've yet to see one of these in the flesh

there's lots of them at Thursley if your going

Ashe

wildmanofthewoods · #14 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by GuyF

The first is a Keeled Skimmer, lots of those about on the Dorset heaths at this time of year, the second is a Great Green Bush-cricket nymph.
These are all very nice shots!
Guy

Thanks GuyF
didn't have a clue on the Dragonfly
the Bush Cricket is what i thought but was a lot less developed than the others i shot that day, thats what threw me.

Also thankyou for your comments