Ouch!!!!
very strangely there were two female crickets sitting on my bedroom window when I went to bed last night presumably basking in the light from my moth trap.
With Mr U&L's help i managed to catch both them, the larger of the two was a Speckled bush cricket, and this, the smaller one is I think a Southern oak bush cricket.
The Southern oak bush cricket Meconema meridionale, is a new species to the UK, having been first recorded in Kent in 2005. It is flightless, so is spreading slowly (sometimes by hitching a lift on vehicles).
It is possible the nymphs could easily be confused with those of the Oak Bush cricket, but wingless specimens this late in the season are likly to be Southern Oak Bush cricket.
I was very excited as even though I have caught the male of this species twice before in my garden (see 8.9.14) this was my first female, and as you can see from the shot, she may be tiny, but she still managed to give me a painful nip!! - bless her!
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