Orthoptera

Your insect is probably a grasshopper or cricket

 

Fact file

Order: Orthoptera
Body length: 5 - 150mm
Species: World - 2500+, UK - 30

Orthoptera are divided into two sub-groups:

  • the Ensifera: crickets, katydids and long-horned grasshoppers - which are mainly nocturnal and solitary
  • the Caelifera: short-horned grasshoppers and locusts which are mainly active during the day

 

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illustration Orthoptera