New Species - Roesel's Bush Cricket

Another one for the Orthopterans list - the Roesel's Bush Cricket which brings the count to seven species. Luckily it is an easy one to identify as I did not have my camera with me which is the usual way I id insects. I think there is a general decrease in the density of grasshoppers and crickets this year-last year there were hordes of them. The list in full: Dark Bush Cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus Field Grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus Common Green GrasshopperOmocestus viridulus Speckled Bush Cricket Leptophyes punctatissima Common Groundhopper Tetrix undulata Roesel’s Bush Cricket Metrioptera roeselii