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Roesel's bush-cricket /Скачок Резеля/ (female)
Sometimes I photograph insects. This is one of my hobbies. I try to recognize the species of the photographed insect. It's quite an interesting thing~ uwu (Let me get ahead of your question - I am not afraid of insects. I know which of them can cause serious damage, so I don’t directly touch wasps, hornets, etc.)
Great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) and Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
Photo by Andres M Dominguez
Pseudolus' Saddle Bush-cricket - Grilo-de-sela-de-perna-longa (Steropleurus pseudolus)
Trancoso/Portugal (20/06/2020)
[Nikon D500; ∑150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro with Flash Metz 48 AF-1; 1/320s; F14; 400 ISO]
Dark Bush-cricket
A dark bush-cricket resting amongst the undergrowth, at Felmersham Gravel Pits.
#1802 - Tympanophora sp. - Balloon-winged Bush-cricket
Another rather special orthopteran, spotted by myself where she was snacking on a large caterpillar in the rushes next to a dried-out drain at Lake McLarty south of Perth. She didn’t much like my attention, or the small crowd of photographers that gathered to see the Find-of-the-Month, and kept jumping to other stems, but only settling down if they were the same width as her body.
Tympanophora is the only genus in the subfamily, and despite the common name they’re in the katydid family as opposed to anything cricket-related. The handful of species are almost all restricted to Western Australia.
Males have inflated wings - females are wingless but have a stupidly long ovipositor, visible here in the second photo. They look almost reptilian as a result - see the photos here for example https://theinsectdiary.blogspot.com/2015/01/ballon-winged-katydid-in-bunbury.html
Diet is mixed, but the barbed forelimbs and the fact she was eating another insect when I spotted her are clues that she’s well equipped to eat anything her size.
A female katydid (bush-cricket) lays her eggs inside the bark of a tree during the night. The females have a special organ called an ovipositor, at the end of their body, which they use to put the eggs inside the bark of a tree, in small stems, or the ground.
© Javier Aznar
We also found this beautiful wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) today! You gotta be careful with these friends because they can and will bite you if you give them both reason and opportunity.
Speckled bush-cricket. Hopefully having a nice time on my sawfly infested roses. https://sites.google.com/site/natureguideuk/home/grasshoppers--crickets/speckled-bush-cricket
