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Common Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus)
Getting ready to hop (or rather catapult) as the femur is raised! Grasshoppers have compound eyes, each eye is made up of a series of lenses. I knew he was watching me closely!
Females have a tapered abdomen that ends in a pointed egg laying tube called the ovipositor. Male have a more rounded abdomen that turns upward, as in this photo.
"Chorthippus brunneus", the "common field grasshopper", is a species of grasshopper found across Europe, much of Asia and North Africa . It is common in mostly dry and often sparse grassland, from the beginning of summer until October. Very hairy below the thorax. Song consist of short shirps like time-signal pips.
Similar species: Grasshoppers And Crickets
By Bridget Charity Rendall
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Uploaded Oct 10, 2012. Captured in Barton Ln, Exeter, Devon EX2, UK.
