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Other Local Resorts & Areas => Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Hamlet on August 30, 2015, 20:02:50 PM

Title: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: Hamlet on August 30, 2015, 20:02:50 PM

Can anyone confirm what this is please?  ???

(http://s7.postimg.org/kfov1fhdz/image.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/kfov1fhdz/)

(http://s7.postimg.org/m67w2wyx3/image.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/m67w2wyx3/)

(http://s7.postimg.org/y6tc3n6br/image.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/y6tc3n6br/)

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: Jacqui Harvey on August 30, 2015, 21:40:05 PM

Think I saw one of those in Alien... Look out   :) 

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: SteveJ on August 30, 2015, 22:15:01 PM

Your photographs don't give much idea of the size of the beast. If it's a few inches long it's most likely to be a grasshopper. Any bigger and it may be a locust. Either way they are harmless unless there's squillions of them and you are a plant.

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: Scunner on August 30, 2015, 22:21:38 PM

Or an Egyptian in Biblical times

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: KKOB on August 31, 2015, 00:29:30 AM

It's an adult female wingless katydid in the family Tettigoniidae

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: KKOB on August 31, 2015, 00:32:29 AM

Quote from: SteveJ on August 30, 2015, 22:15:01 PM

If it's a few inches long it's most likely to be a grasshopper. Any bigger and it may be a locust.

Today's interesting fact:

A grasshopper only becomes a locust when it's in a swarm. You can't have a single locust.

 ;)

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: Sleuth on August 31, 2015, 04:48:13 AM

Best to deal with it as the Turks suggest...   "  if it moves,  kill it "       ;)

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: Hamlet on August 31, 2015, 05:05:35 AM

Thanks KKOB, very informative  8)

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: WordBird on September 01, 2015, 11:23:14 AM

I saw one of those a couple of months ago - I was told it was a predatory bush cricket.
Not very nice for some other critters but harmless to us....although the one I saw looked pretty aggressive and scared the dogs!  ;D

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: KKOB on September 01, 2015, 12:32:35 PM

The picture is of an "ordinary" Bush Cricket.

If it was a Predatory Bush Cricket it would have much longer front legs and the entire body and legs would be covered in "spikes".

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: SteveJ on September 01, 2015, 14:58:51 PM

My ex wife once had a dose of predatory bush cricket - it looked pretty much like KKOB has described it.  ;D

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: WordBird on September 01, 2015, 16:17:02 PM

Just compared photos to mine - yes, the one I saw is a bit different (and scarier!).
Thanks for highlighting the difference, I'm finding it interesting to see all the different species.  :)

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: Lotty on September 01, 2015, 17:01:26 PM

This is - I think!   ;)


(http://s27.postimg.org/63kmpgxrj/image.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/63kmpgxrj/)

(http://s27.postimg.org/3xqbuyub3/image.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/3xqbuyub3/)

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: KKOB on September 01, 2015, 17:54:38 PM

Yep.

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: SteveJ on September 01, 2015, 22:22:50 PM

Look at F in size of it!!!. If I came out of that door and saw that on my wall I would sh*t myself

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: SteveJ on September 01, 2015, 22:31:53 PM

It's on a window isn't it?

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: Lotty on September 02, 2015, 08:12:23 AM

Ha-haha,! Yes SteveJ - I resized it to see it close up and this is how it looked! Weird illusion though.   ;)

Title: Re: Is this a grasshopper?
Post by: SteveJ on September 02, 2015, 11:58:41 AM

I knew that   ;)