Bog Bush Cricket
Taxonomy
Orthoptera » Ensifera » Tettigonioidea » Tettigoniidae » Decticinae » Metrioptera brachyptera
Status
UK
Distribution Map
Colours show the year of the last record -
| up to 1987 | 1988-97 | 1998 up to present |
Only Recording Scheme datasets are included. Other datasets on the Gateway may hold additional information.
Recordings
Description
Green or brown but with bright green underside. The pronotum has a cream-coloured band only on the hind edge (unlike Roesel’s Bush Cricket, where the band goes all the way round the pronotum).
Size
11-21 mm
Wings
Short-winged (brachypterous), with only vestigial hind-wings and short fore-wings. There is a rare fully winged form, f. marginata with brownish-black wings.
Stridulation
Soft but shrill buzz like rapidly ticking watch
Food
Mainly vegetarian, feeding on buds, seeds and flowers.
Habitat
Lowland heaths and clearings in damp heathy woodland. Eggs are inserted into vegetation by means of the ovipositor.
Phenology
Nymphs hatch in May and June. Adults from July until late autumn.