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Field Cricket Grillus campestris Female
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I had never seen one of these before and this one was in perfect condition, as though freshly-emerged.
In September I was photographing shot-horned grasshoppers on an infrequently-cut lawn (grass ca. 10cm tall) at our hotel in central Corsica. Then I saw a black shape moving through the grass close to my knee. I though it was a huge cockroach.
I had to remove it from the grass to have any chance of a picture so I picked it up, only then realising that it was a cricket, a huge one. I placed on a sand/stoney area of ground and took quite a few shots, all the time expecting it to fly away. The best it seemed to be able to do was to large itself sideways in a large crevice at the base of a stone wall, which is where I eventually left it.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/species-of-the-day/biodiversity/endangered-species/gryllus-campestris/
EM-1 (manual mode), Kiron 105mm macro, hand-held, 1/100 or 1/125 ISO 640 (last one ISO 800), sunlight.
The blur in the first image is the OOF right antenna.
Harold
In September I was photographing shot-horned grasshoppers on an infrequently-cut lawn (grass ca. 10cm tall) at our hotel in central Corsica. Then I saw a black shape moving through the grass close to my knee. I though it was a huge cockroach.
I had to remove it from the grass to have any chance of a picture so I picked it up, only then realising that it was a cricket, a huge one. I placed on a sand/stoney area of ground and took quite a few shots, all the time expecting it to fly away. The best it seemed to be able to do was to large itself sideways in a large crevice at the base of a stone wall, which is where I eventually left it.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/species-of-the-day/biodiversity/endangered-species/gryllus-campestris/
EM-1 (manual mode), Kiron 105mm macro, hand-held, 1/100 or 1/125 ISO 640 (last one ISO 800), sunlight.
The blur in the first image is the OOF right antenna.
Harold
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Thanks.
I liked the way the wing venation was visible.
Harold
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Thanks, Brian.
Yes, I really like that too. It took me ages to polish it to that shine!
Harold
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Phil,
It seemed huge. The blackness and the way it stretched out probably made it look bigger than it was. The size is given, in one book, as 18-23mm
The problem is that it is actually G. bimaculatus, which gets a mention in the text of my various books covering European insects but is not illustrated. The difference is the colour pattern but mostly that the front wings (shiny+ black) leave 2-3 segments of the abdomen exposed. I tried to edit the name in this topic but could not.
I have now, after a long search, found the size. A dealer who offers cultured ones gives the maximum size as 30mm.
Harold