Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima (Bosc, 1792))
Scientific name: Leptophyes punctatissima (Bosc, 1792)
Common name: Speckled Bush Cricket
French name: Sauterelle ponctuée
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Phaneropteridae
Wingspan : Body length : males 9-11mm, females 11-18mm.
Biotope: Forests, woodland edges, bushes, parks and gardens. Either dry or wet conditions.
Geographic area: Europe, north to southern Scandinavia, east to western Russia.
Observation period : July to November.
Adult Speckled Bush Crickets are a green colour with a dark brown dorsal stripe.
The body is totally covered with brown speckles.
The elytra are very short and the Speckled Bush Cricket is missing hindwings.
Females have a large upwards-curved ovipositor to lay the eggs, usually into crevices in the bark of trees.
The Speckled Bush Cricket overwinters as an egg.
Nymphs hatch out late May or early June and grow in the low-lying vegetation.
They become mature late July or early August. Adults usually move upwards in the vegetation and live near the top of trees.
Their produced sound is weak and very short.

Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) - Yvelines, France - October 21st 2012
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Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima)
Colder days approaching, this Speckled Bush Cricket came closer to the house so it has been much easier to shoot pictures.


Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) - Yvelines, France - October 21st 2012
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Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima)
The very short elytra are well visible on this close-up picture.


Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) - Yvelines, France - September 10th 2006
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I have found this Bush Cricket perched in the rosebushes.
I think it is missing one antenna.


Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) - Yvelines, France - May 20th 2009
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Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima)
I have observed this very small cricket in my Alpine Asters.
I have planted them to attract butterflies, and these are again other insect species that I observe there.


Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) - Yvelines, France - July 9th 2011
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Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima)
There are many Speckled Bush Crickets in my garden, here is one on a rose.


Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) - Yvelines, France - July 9th 2011
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Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima)
The curved ovipositor indicates one female. I still have to a shoot a picture of a male.

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