Roesel's Bush-cricket (Metrioptera roeselii)

(All above) Roesel's Bush-cricket, La Cure, Jura, France, July 18, 2012. On grassy roadside verge

(Below) at Rossall, Lancashire, August 10 & 31, 2012. This location is well outside the normal British range of this essentially southern species. It has been known here for more than twenty year and its origin

is the subject of much speculation.

Male

Female

 Female nymph

Male nymph

Three individuals in a dense mass of grass and bramble

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