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Slender Groundhopper (Tetrix subulata)
This is a small, fully-wiged grasshopper-like species which can both fly and swim, preferring damp and muddy locations with short vegetation, which is why I was surprised to find this specimen on an average woodland edge just a couple iof hunderd metres from my home.
An adult, so early in the season would have overwintered while new nymphs begin appearing from May onwards.
This is a Herbivorous species, feeding on algae, mosses and lichens.
Alternative names include 'Awl-shaped Pygmy grasshopper' & 'Slender Grouse locust'
"Tetrix subulata" is a species of groundhopper known as the slender ground-hopper, awl-shaped pygmy grasshopper and the slender grouse locust. It is found across the Palearctic: in North America, across much of Europe and Asia, from the British Isles east to Siberia, and to the southern parts of North Africa.
