Orthoptera (Grasshoppers and crickets)

Saddle-backed Bush Cricket male resting in a mountain grassland. Catalan Pyrenees, France.

Sauterelle ponctuée mâle posé sur une feuille d'ortie dans mon jardin...Speckled Bush-cricket male resting on a nettle leaf in my garden.

A Great Green Bush-Cricket male resting on a borage leaf in my garden.

A Great Green Bush-Cricket male resting on a leaf in a wet meadow.

A Great Green Bush-Cricket male cleans one of its antennae on sedge in a wet meadow.

Saddle-backed Bush Cricket female on a southern globe-thistle in bloom in a meadow. Diois, France.

Saddle-backed Bush Cricket female on on a common yarrow in bloom in a meadow. Pyrénées Orientales, France.

European mole cricket found on a path that passes in front of my house in April. Limousin, France.

European mole cricket found on a path that passes in front of my house in April. Limousin, France.

European mole cricket found on a path that passes in front of my house in April. Limousin, France.

A Grasshopper female resting on a leaf of bell pepper in my greenhouse..

Large Marsh Grasshopper female discovered near a stream, it lacks a hind leg, which greatly facilitated the approach. Limousin, France.

Large Marsh Grasshopper female discovered near a stream, it lacks a hind leg, which greatly facilitated the approach. Limousin, France.

Large Conehead resting in the vegetation along a stream. Limousin, France.

Green Leek Grasshopper male resting on an oak leaf in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.

Green Mountain Grasshoppers mating on common yarrow in bloom in an alpine meadow. Vercors, France.

A female nymph of Sickle-bearing bush-cricket eating a flower of creeping thistle. Calcareous hill near Villefranche de Rouergue in Aveyron.

A female nymph of Sickle-bearing bush-cricket eating a flower of creeping thistle. Calcareous hill near Villefranche de Rouergue in Aveyron.

This female of Large Marsh Grasshopper is very large. The females of this species frequent the humid areas and vary in size. The males also but they are much smaller than females.

A male juvenile of Lily Bush-Cricket cleans its legs on a knapweed flower on the slope of a hill.

This female of Large Marsh Grasshopper is very large. The females of this species frequent the humid areas and vary in size. The males also but they are much smaller than females.

Large Marsh Grasshopper female resting on sedge in a wet meadow.

Green Mountain Grasshopper male on a leaf in an alpine meadow.

Green Mountain Grasshopper female on a leaf in an alpine meadow.

Green Mountain Grasshoppers mating on a leaf in an alpine meadow.

Great Green Bush-Cricket female resting on Brown Knapweed.

Great Green Bush-Cricket female resting on Brown Knapweed.

Green Mountain Grasshoppers mating on scabious flower in an alpine meadow.

Green Mountain Grasshoppers mating on scabious flower in an alpine meadow.