Species in the order Orthoptera Results 1 - 9
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Cook Strait giant weta (Deinacrida rugosa)
Reaching up to an enormous seven centimetres in length, the Cook Strait giant weta is one of the largest insects in the world. Its...  More  6 Images  0 Videos
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Field cricket (Gryllus campestris)
The field cricket is an impressive insect with a black body and wings that resemble intricate wrought iron work. The wing colour i...  More  6 Images  2 Videos
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Mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa)
This is our largest native orthopteran and one of our most impressive and unusual looking insects. The scientific name derives fr...  More  8 Images  3 Videos
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Large marsh grasshopper (Stethophyma grossum)
This species is the largest grasshopper in Great Britain. It is normally vivid greenish yellow or olive brown in colour, and a pu...  More  3 Images  0 Videos
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Poor Knights weta (Deinacrida fallai)
The Poor Knights weta is one of over 100 large, flightless insects belonging to the weta family (Stenopelmatidae), all of which ar...  More  3 Images  0 Videos
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Wart-biter cricket (Decticus verrucivorus)
The wart-biter cricket is a large, dark green bush-cricket, often with dark brown blotches on the pronotum and wings. A keel is p...  More  9 Images  4 Videos
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Predatory bush cricket (Saga pedo)
Information on the predatory bush cricket is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly...  More  16 Images  0 Videos
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Scaly cricket (Pseudomogoplistes vicentae)
First recorded in Britain in 1949, this species is small, with a chestnut brown to grey body and pale legs, which are covered with...  More  2 Images  0 Videos

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