Author Topic: Is this a grasshopper?  (Read 4818 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Hamlet

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 998
  • Age: 70
  • Location: Yesiluzumlu, Turkey
Is this a grasshopper?
« on: August 30, 2015, 20:02:50 PM »
Can anyone confirm what this is please?  ???









Offline Jacqui Harvey

  • Prolific Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11170
  • Location: United Kingdom
  • Antiques are Green
Re: Is this a grasshopper?
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2015, 21:40:05 PM »
Think I saw one of those in Alien... Look out   :) 

Offline SteveJ

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1162
  • Age: 70
  • Location: United Kingdom
Re: Is this a grasshopper?
« Reply #2 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.

Offline Scunner

  • Chairman of the Bored
  • Administrator
  • Prolific Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 45714
  • Age: 57
  • Location: Perthchester
Re: Is this a grasshopper?
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2015, 22:21:38 PM »
Or an Egyptian in Biblical times

Offline KKOB

  • Prolific Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13570
  • I'm hearing the word.... Nonce !
Re: Is this a grasshopper?
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2015, 00:29:30 AM »
It's an adult female wingless katydid in the family Tettigoniidae

Offline KKOB

  • Prolific Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13570
  • I'm hearing the word.... Nonce !
Re: Is this a grasshopper?
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2015, 00:32:29 AM »
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.

 ;)

Offline Sleuth

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 847
  • Location: United Kingdom
Re: Is this a grasshopper?
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2015, 04:48:13 AM »
Best to deal with it as the Turks suggest...   "  if it moves,  kill it "       ;)

Offline Hamlet

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 998
  • Age: 70
  • Location: Yesiluzumlu, Turkey
Re: Is this a grasshopper?
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2015, 05:05:35 AM »
Thanks KKOB, very informative  8)

Offline WordBird

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 598
  • Age: 53
  • Location: Following my heart
  • What's the worst that could happen?
Re: Is this a grasshopper?
« Reply #8 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

Offline KKOB

  • Prolific Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13570
  • I'm hearing the word.... Nonce !
Re: Is this a grasshopper?
« Reply #9 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".




Share me

Digg  Facebook  SlashDot  Delicious  Technorati  Twitter  Google  Yahoo
Smf