Green bug photos

Maryann · « **on:** August 12, 2008, 14:40 »

Can anyone identify this green bug for me please. Not had them in garden before but now got lots and wonder if they are eating my salad cut and come again leaves.
The darn critters are everywhere and now coming indoors :shock:

sorry about poor photo quality but this one sitting on my back door.

Maryann · « **Reply #1 on:** August 12, 2008, 14:43 »

Deleted this image as too big - sorry

iwantanallotment · « **Reply #2 on:** August 12, 2008, 14:46 »

Sorry, I don't know what they are. But they look horrible....and BIG! :shock:

Maryann · « **Reply #3 on:** August 12, 2008, 14:51 »

Whoops, sorry tried to post a smaller photo and a great big one came out instead....I haven't quite mastered photobucket yet :oops:

Are they these things by any chance....and yes they are big beggars.

http://whatsthatbug.com/katy.html

iwantanallotment · « **Reply #4 on:** August 12, 2008, 14:58 »

Doesn't look like it to me Maryann, yours has a different body shape.
But I could be wrong. Hope someone tells you soon, cos I'm intrigued now!
ps - looks like some kind of grasshopper or cricket though, I'm pretty sure....

Maryann · « **Reply #5 on:** August 12, 2008, 15:09 »

Well you could be right there but I can't find anything on the websites for grasshoppers or crickets that look like this guy.

To be honest the photo's didn't come out so good as sun was shining (for the only time today) directly onto back door and he was sitting on the glass pane so it reflected badly.

He is quite robust - can fly - and is a very bright vivid lime green colour. I have found about 4 or 5 now in the salad leaves and on garden plants and they come indoors as well.

There is nor chirruping sound that crickets make - this one is silent :shock:

scabs · « **Reply #6 on:** August 12, 2008, 15:16 »

Looks like a katydid (Bush Cricket)...

though I didn't think they got that large in the UK...

Having read this ( http://www.countryside-trust.org.uk/edge/edgecricket.htm ) it seems they do!

scabs · « **Reply #7 on:** August 12, 2008, 15:19 »

http://www.lakelandwildlife.co.uk/template.asp?SpeciesName=Meconema%20thalassinum&PageID=pic1

speckled bush cricket: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Cricket037.jpg

Hmmm... not sure...

Maryann · « **Reply #8 on:** August 12, 2008, 15:23 »

Hi Scabs - that is a great photo but I don't think it is my bug.

I have found this website -

http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/autthumb.cfm?aut=2641&Start=31&sort=3

great info on it but yet to find anything that resembles the jolly green giant on my back door ...bit like the Pea Aphid on their site but my chap is a lot bigger and with very long skinny legs.

Iam assuming he is a chap of course :?

Maryann · « **Reply #9 on:** August 12, 2008, 15:25 »

I'm intrigued now.

I must try to get a better photo....I go in search

I may be gone some time

Rowan · « **Reply #10 on:** August 12, 2008, 15:55 »

looks like a grass hopper to me, we had one in the house last week, but the cat ate it!! :oops:

They will eat just about anything so beware!!

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #11 on:** August 12, 2008, 16:12 »

Oak bush-cricket

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/wildlife/insects_oak_bush-cricket.html

Maryann · « **Reply #12 on:** August 12, 2008, 16:22 »

Quote from: "Rowan"

looks like a grass hopper to me, we had one in the house last week, but the cat ate it!! :oops:

They will eat just about anything so beware!!

What the cat or the grass hopper

Maryann · « **Reply #13 on:** August 12, 2008, 16:25 »

Quote from: "Aunt Sally"

Oak bush-cricket

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/wildlife/insects_oak_bush-cricket.html

Ooh that does look close to my one. Don't they make noises though?

We used to have loads of crickets in my Nan's farmhouse in Ireland but you always heard them.

We have had them indoors in the evening and not a sound :?

Still it's looking like the favourite at the moment.

Big one on back door has gone off somewhere, probably munching my salad leaves again :evil:

Do they eat a lot these blighters.

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