Dark Bush Cricket

16 October 2004
Lancing Clump
Katherine Hamblett heard the chirping of a male Dark Bush Cricket, Pholidoptera griseoaptera, with a distinctive yellow abdomen.
 
Dark Bush Cricket (male)

19 June 2003
The field next to the stream (TQ 209 068) to the west of the Waterworks (Old Shoreham) was like a jungle with thistles and nettles.

Dark Bush Cricket (Photograph by Andy Horton)

Several young (at least three) Dark Bush Crickets, Pholidoptera griseoaptera, were slow to hide in the thick vegetation.
 

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