I'm enjoying a spell of 'insects'. I always give the local Odonata a few sessions during July and August but general insects give you a sense of something new EVERY time! Having got usd to identifying all the VP Grasshoppers, Dave Chapman chanced upon a new Cricket, green with a very dark almost black back on the Causeway. Checking and comparing with images on the web, this looks to be a nymph male
Long-winged Conehead?
It's so easy to crop those antennae!
But these are deliberate, to get a closer look...
A change of angle coming up!
The darkly coloured back and just look at those legs!
Certainly not common throughout the county but occurs in rough grassland of which there is plenty but the Venus Pool tetrad seems to be the most westerly site for records!?
