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Orthoptera – Oak Bush-crickets

Order Orthoptera – Bush-crickets, Crickets & Grasshoppers
   Suborder Ensifera
      Superfamily Tettigonioidea
         Family Meconematidae – Oak Bush-crickets
            Genus – Meconema

Meconema thalassinum - Oak Bush Cricket (nymph), Anston Stones Wood
Meconema thalassinum - Oak Bush Cricket, Chamber’s Farm Wood, Lincs.
Meconema thalassinum - Oak Bush Cricket, Chamber’s Farm Wood, Lincs. [walking on stilts and whistling a tune]

Recent Posts

  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 15th July 2026 to Thorpe Marsh NNR 13 July 2026
  • Next Meeting – Saturday July 4th, 2026 at Denaby Delf 30 June 2026
  • Next Meeting – Friday 26 June 2026 to Brockadale 22 June 2026
  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 17th June 2026 at Mount Pleasant Hotel on Bawtry Rd. 12 June 2026
  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 3rd June 2026 Carolina Heath, Lakeside, Doncaster 29 May 2026

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Click Beetle - Athous haemprrhoidali, Loversall Delf, Potteric Carr. Cicadella viridis - Green Leaf-hopper, Thorne Moor.

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From the viewing platform, Bemptonn Cliffs Hemerobius sp. - Brown Lacewing, Anston Stones Wood Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major), Austerfield. Figure 3 Musk Mallow Ruff, RSPB Adwick Washlands. Greater Whitethroat - Sylvia communis, Harrycroft Quary, South Anston. AQ-32-Page-29-rotated Digger Wasp - Argogorytes mystaceus, - NT Clumber Park. Harvest Mouse Nest - River Idle, Bawtry. 1941 River Don in Flood.
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