Grasshoppers and crickets – My Butterflies

Grasshoppers and crickets are an insect group with 38 Danish species in all, including grasshoppers proper, crickets and mole crickets. According to the length of their antennae, they are divided into long-horned and short-horned grasshoppers. Their life cycle has three stages: egg, nymph (young) and adult. They overwinter as eggs, and the nymphs appear in May/June and pass through a number of stages (which varies from species to species) before they become adults. The adults die towards the end of the year

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Wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) – Male seen on the dike in August

Wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) – Female (recognisable by the ovipositor) seen on the dike in June

Wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) – Female (recognisable by the ovipositor) seen on the dike in August

Wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) – Nymph seen on the dike in May

Roesel's Bush-cricket (Metrioptera roeseli) – Male seen in the plantation in August

Roesel's Bush-cricket (Metrioptera roeseli) – Female (recognisable by the ovipositor) seen on the dike in September

Roesel's Bush-cricket (Metrioptera roeseli) – Female seen on the dike in September

Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) – Female (recognisable by the ovipositor) seen in the plantation in August on Bramble

Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) – Nymph seen in the plantation in June

iseoaptera) – Nymph seen in the plantation in June – Dark Bush-cricket – (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) – Nymph seen in the plantation in June

Great Green Bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) – Female (recognisable by the ovipositor) seen at the summer house in September

Great Green Bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) – Nymph seen on the dike in June on Sheep's Sorrel

Great Green Bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) – Nymph seen at the woodland edge by the plantation in June on Nettle

Great Green Bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) – Female (recognisable by the ovipositor) seen in a clearing in the plantation in July on Spear Thistle

Oak Bush-cricket (Meconema thalassinum) – Female (recognisable by the ovipositor) seen at the summer house in July

Oak Bush-cricket (Meconema thalassinum) – Male seen at the summer house in August

Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) – Seen on the dike in July

Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) – Seen on the dike in September on Field Scabious

Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) – Seen in the plantation in August

Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus) – Seen at the summer house in July