Meadow Grasshopper
Observed by lpearce
on 17th July 2009
on 17th July 2009(Added to iSpot on 17th July 2009)
Found this in the garden today, cannot identify what grasshopper it is.
Location: Badnaban, Sutherland
Other observations of Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)
Comments
Meadow grasshopper
21 July 2009 - 10:33pm — The Naturalist Man
As Bob says, brilliant photos for identification. The upper view shows the sides of the pronotum (kind of hood behind the head) are slightly 'hour-glass' shaped - two ends wider than middle. The other common green grasshopper, the field grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus) has black wedge-shaped marks on the pronotum.
This is the common short winged morph, there is a long-winged morph which can be confused with the field grasshopper which always has long wings.
Graham Banwell
The Naturalist Man
iSpot Biodiversity Mentor - Yorkshire
meadow grasshopper
This is one of the top 3 grasshoppers in terms of abundance. Probably in every grassy field and garden in the UK. These photos are a lesson in how to illustrate a species well, with the subject pictures from every angle. a good spot, well recorded.
Bob Ford
Biodiversity Mentor - South