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Species

badger c. Andrew Parkinson/2020VISION

Grasshoppers and crickets

A slender groundhopper resting on a broken reed stem. It's a stocky, brown relative of the grasshoppers, with a long pronotum that extends beyond the end of its body

Slender groundhopper

A large marsh grasshipper standing on a fallen branch. It's a green grasshopper with black and yellow banding on the knees of the hind leg

Large marsh grasshopper

A common groundhopper blending in with bare soil. It's a stocky relative of the grasshoppers, with a raised ridge running along its back

Common groundhopper

A female bog bush-cricket standing on a branch. It's a brown insect with incredibly long back legs, long antennae and a long, upcurved ovipositor

Bog bush-cricket

Common Field Grasshopper

Common field grasshopper

Meadow Grasshopper

Meadow grasshopper

Common green grasshopper

Common green grasshopper

Mottled Grasshopper

Mottled grasshopper

Speckled Bush-cricket

Speckled bush-cricket

Oak Bush-cricket

Oak bush-cricket

Long-winged Conehead

Long-winged conehead

Great Green Bush-cricket

Great green bush-cricket

Dark Bush-cricket

Dark bush-cricket

Roesel's Bush-cricket

Roesel's bush-cricket

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