GREAT GREEN BUSH-CRICKET |
TETTIGONIA VIRIDISSIMA |
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DESCRIPTION: With a wingspan up to 70mm and an overall
length of approximately 46mm this is Britain's biggest
bush-cricket. The overall colour is a lush green broken only by a
longitudinal brown dorsal stripe. The females long sword-like
ovipositor looks ominous but is harmless. BEHAVIOUR: Produces a loud call from deep cover that
carries for several hundred metres. This sound is made long after
dusk. DISTRIBUTION: Common in the south especially Dorset to
Cornwall and S Wales. Less frequent elsewhere. HABITAT: Mainly coastal with mature hedgerows,
gardens, scrub and rough shrubby grassland the chosen sites. PERIOD: May to Autumn. |