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Insect ID please

  • 14-08-2018 8:51pm
    #1
    Live at Three
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    Found this guy in bedroom. Saw the same in bathroom 2 weeks ago, might be the same fella...


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Not a field I'm very informed in but it looks like one of the Bush-crickets.


  • #3
    New Home
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    Grasshopper.

    Can't make out what's on its back, though. It could be about to "molt".


  • #4
    Turnipman
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    Could it be a bush cricket?

    See: https://goo.gl/images/KaUeu2


  • #5
    Live at Three
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    Thanks for the answers, I have no idea about insects. There's better detail in this one if you zoom in


  • #6
    New Home
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    I'm still wondering about that "scab" along its back, usually they're more uniformely brown(ish) or uniformely green in colour. I wonder, is it about to lose its skin, or has it been "zombified" by a Horsehair worm or Gordian worm?

    Images here. Warning - they aren't pretty.


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  • #7
    tayto lover
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    Grasshopper.


  • #8
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    New Home wrote: »
    I'm still wondering about that "scab" along its back, usually they're more uniformely brown(ish) or uniformely green in colour. I wonder, is it about to lose its skin, or has it been "zombified" by a Horsehair worm or Gordian worm?

    Images here. Warning - they aren't pretty.

    Many crickets and grasshoppers have a brown shield on the back like this.


  • #9
    New Home
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    I never noticed them! Time for a trip to Specsavers for me, so!


  • #10
    Birdnuts
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    Aliyah Quaint Verdigris wrote: »
    Not a field I'm very informed in but it looks like one of the Bush-crickets.

    What is the status of these in this country?? I ask cos I regain I heard one calling near my parents home late one night a few weeks ago. I have never heard one in this country before - but clocked the call from trips to Africa etc.


  • #11
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Birdnuts wrote: »
    What is the status of these in this country?? I ask cos I regain I heard one calling near my parents home late one night a few weeks ago. I have never heard one in this country before - but clocked the call from trips to Africa etc.

    They are classed as Scarce and Local; mostly in the South and South West, I believe.


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  • #12
    Live at Three
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    Glad I didn't hear this in the bedroom last night...

    https://youtu.be/E_Q02ThdrBk


  • #13
    Birdnuts
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    Live at Three wrote: »
    Glad I didn't hear this in the bedroom last night...

    https://youtu.be/E_Q02ThdrBk

    Nah - I love that kind of thing;)


  • #14
    Birdnuts
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    Aliyah Quaint Verdigris wrote: »
    They are classed as Scarce and Local; mostly in the South and South West, I believe.

    Cheers - I suppose like so many other large insect species, they were probably much more common prior to the era of agri-chemicals etc.


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