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Title: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: Aafke on 10-Sep-09, 04:08:06 PM My neighbor yelled, come quickly and take your camera with you.
In a few seconds I was in her garden looking at a real BIG cricket. Later I looked for it and I think it's a Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) in Dutch Grote groene sabelsprinkhaan. I read that it is very common, how is it possible that I never saw it before? Here are some pictures, it's hard to see how big he was but he was big!!! :hatch1: greetings Aafke Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: valhalla on 10-Sep-09, 04:57:51 PM No, Aafka - I can see how BIG :notworthy: he was (I almost thought he was a Praying Mantis at 1st glance). Great detail - you can see the leg fuzzies, which makes me wonder just how loud he is?
Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: Judi on 10-Sep-09, 10:48:14 PM Whoa! He not just big...he GINORMOUS! :surprise:
Excellent photos, Aafke...great detail. Wow! :wave: Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: Donna on 10-Sep-09, 11:01:50 PM I'd probably run :dogrun: if I saw that Dinosaur....He is BIG. Thanks Aafke.
Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: Bird Crazy on 12-Sep-09, 10:35:04 PM reminds me of a katydid wonder if they are related.
Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: Aafke on 13-Sep-09, 11:09:01 AM reminds me of a katydid wonder if they are related. I never heard of a katydid. I looked on the internet and saw it and I read: "True Katydids are relatives of grasshoppers and crickets". Very good of you Bird Crazy! (http://www.iconbazaar.com/animals/arthropods/insects/bugs/chagasbug_1b.gif)greetings Aafke Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: Aafke on 13-Sep-09, 11:38:28 AM No, Aafka - I can see how BIG :notworthy: he was (I almost thought he was a Praying Mantis at 1st glance). Great detail - you can see the leg fuzzies, which makes me wonder just how loud he is? Hi Janet No, at that moment he made no sound at all. I read that only males "sing" by rubbing the for legs and you can only hear them between 3 pm and 3 am. De sound is very loud. Interesting! Probably this great green Bush Cricket is a female, she has a Ovipositor (cannot find the English word), males don't have one. She lays her eggs in september. Maybe I will have hundreds of them next year! (http://www.iconbazaar.com/animals/arthropods/insects/bugs/damselbug_2b.gif)greetings Aafke Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: Paul Hamilton on 13-Sep-09, 12:32:49 PM We have them here and call them katydids. I grew up in Connecticut where they really did make a sound like "katy-did" on late summer and fall nights. I remember looking out at the barn in back of my childhood home in the moonlight and hearing thousands of them, all being very loud. That's how I went to sleep as a boy.
Here is one that was on our kitchen window on the first of September during our dinner. Isn't it wonderful how much they look like leaves? Unfortunately, the population here simply chirps, unlike their relatives up North. Some day, I want to go up to my old home town for a weekend and find a place with screened windows so that I can enjoy this favorite sound again. Paul Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: valhalla on 13-Sep-09, 12:54:15 PM We have them here and call them katydids. Paul Believe it or not, I have only seen (1) one Katydid in my 51-years of life AND it was at the Arlington Courthouse. On a window. Hung out there for hours. It was huge. I don't know where it came from - no grass in that area. Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: Dumpsterkitty on 13-Sep-09, 03:45:36 PM Marie Winn has been posting for the past week or so on her blog about a "Cricket Crawl" in Central Park NYC.
Friday's (http://www.mariewinn.com/marieblog/2009/09/answer-to-my-burning-question-and-final.html) entry has some cricket calls Her blog address http://mariewin.server304.com/marieblog/ Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: Paul Hamilton on 13-Sep-09, 04:29:44 PM Believe it or not, I have only seen (1) one Katydid in my 51-years of life AND it was at the Arlington Courthouse. On a window. Hung out there for hours. It was huge. I don't know where it came from - no grass in that area. The guys around here in Arlington are Common True Katydids (Pterophylla camellifolia). They live in trees and bushes, of which the Courthouse area has a lot. Paul Title: Janets Katydid Post by: Donna on 17-Sep-09, 01:04:32 PM 4th try to get this up. Ok, Janet sent me this pic of a Katydid she took....I haven't seen one in years.
Thanks Janet.. :thumbsup: Title: Janet's Stick thing Post by: Donna on 17-Sep-09, 01:06:20 PM Looks like a Mantis.....but is it? Thanks Janet again :clap:
Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: valhalla on 17-Sep-09, 01:24:37 PM :thanx: Thanks so much for posting them Donna - appreciate it, as I wanted to share them and didn't have the time to get the process down straight. :bow: :notworthy: :bow: :2thumbsup:
Anyway, Rich and I thought these 2 guys were a Katydid and a Walking Stick but, I'm not so sure now. :confused0083: One thing I am certain about is that this group will know "who" these 2 bugs are. :educated: Big Thanks :thanks2: again to Donna! :music: There - a little song in your Honor :2thumbsup: Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: Tokira on 17-Sep-09, 01:29:05 PM When we're out camping, in Outer Boondock, WV, we hear, and see, lots of them. Great music by which to sleep in a tent. One landed on my leg one afternoon a few years back, and I was fascinated, until it took a test sample of my leg :tickedoff:
Carol We have them here and call them katydids. I grew up in Connecticut where they really did make a sound like "katy-did" on late summer and fall nights. I remember looking out at the barn in back of my childhood home in the moonlight and hearing thousands of them, all being very loud. That's how I went to sleep as a boy. Title: Re: Janet's Stick thing Post by: Helen in MD on 17-Sep-09, 02:24:15 PM Looks like a Mantis.....but is it? Thanks Janet again :clap: I think this is a mantis as the walking stick does not have the triangular shaped head. Have been seeing mantis and katydid around the house recently. Just don't take a praying mantis egg thing (is there a better name?) into the house unless you want a zillion little mantises all over the place. :scaredblue:Title: Re: Janet's Stick thing Post by: valhalla on 17-Sep-09, 02:41:32 PM Just don't take a praying mantis egg thing (is there a better name?) into the house unless you want a zillion little mantises all over the place. :scaredblue: We find the egg pods in the blue spruce Christmas trees (search well before bringing the tree in). I must admit that I put them aside and give them my friends young sons to watch hatch in the spring. :happy: The moms have to make sure the pods don't come into the house :happy: Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: harrispen on 17-Sep-09, 07:24:15 PM :thanx: Thanks so much for posting them Donna - appreciate it, as I wanted to share them and didn't have the time to get the process down straight. :bow: :notworthy: :bow: :2thumbsup: Anyway, Rich and I thought these 2 guys were a Katydid and a Walking Stick but, I'm not so sure now. :confused0083: One thing I am certain about is that this group will know "who" these 2 bugs are. :educated: Big Thanks :thanks2: again to Donna! :music: There - a little song in your Honor :2thumbsup: I nominate this post for the best use of smileys for 2009! :winner: Title: Re: Great Green Bush Cricket Post by: Bird Crazy on 17-Sep-09, 10:19:11 PM second one is definitely a praying mantis. :wave:
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