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Post by 4pygmies on Aug 29, 2007 22:24:54 GMT 1
Has anyone else noticed the enormous numbers of grasshoppers about? It's amazing here...smallest and I walked up the field track the other day and they were everywhere. She caught one today in the front flower bed but she was spoilt for choice. They were leaping about in droves. I wonder why?
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Post by sweetleaf on Aug 29, 2007 22:27:54 GMT 1
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Post by 4pygmies on Aug 29, 2007 22:33:53 GMT 1
NO! And I'm surrounded by them.......hosts of them........gulp.... Insects are wonderful creatures aren't they? It's a shame most of them are scary......earwigs are particularly horrid... we kill them with deadly passion at work as they crawl up your sleeves given half a chance...
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Post by chickadeedeedee on Aug 30, 2007 1:22:51 GMT 1
We don't have many grasshoppers but the garden is alive with crickets! They are everywhere! In the garden, flower pots, garage, breezeway, basement, EEEEEEKKKKKK ... dining room too! LOL!
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Post by debbiem on Aug 30, 2007 7:20:55 GMT 1
They haven't swarmed their way down here yet - we've seen one somewhere around here but not in the garden.  |
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Post by emseypop on Aug 30, 2007 9:22:40 GMT 1
We've got loads of crickets on the lottie, Debi has got a contraption for catching them as she want to feed them to shiela, some lizzardy type thing that lives under her stairs-yum
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Post by owdboggy on Aug 30, 2007 10:21:30 GMT 1
Sorry to disagree, but the kind of grasshoppers found in Britain are slightly different to the ones found in Africa etc. British ones do not form the huge migratory clouds as do the more tropical species.
There are about 500 species by the way and the largest native British insect is one, the great green bush cricket. Only ever seen one once, at Hurlstone Point overlooking Bossington Beach, near Minehead in Somerset. They are BIG.
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Post by Sleepy on Aug 30, 2007 10:24:04 GMT 1
NO! And I'm surrounded by them.......hosts of them........gulp.... Insects are wonderful creatures aren't they? It's a shame most of them are scary......earwigs are particularly horrid... we kill them with deadly passion at work as they crawl up your sleeves given half a chance... Crawl up your sleeve? They are only trying to be affectionate! |
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Post by 4pygmies on Aug 30, 2007 10:34:07 GMT 1
Affectionate? They carry jousting poles!!
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Post by Sleepy on Aug 30, 2007 10:43:53 GMT 1
Affectionate? They carry jousting poles!! But only little, and very warm, fuzzy wuzzy jousting poles. |
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Post by 4pygmies on Aug 30, 2007 11:08:37 GMT 1
Poison tipped, I think you'll find.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 30, 2007 11:38:53 GMT 1
And did you know they were in Kung Fu?
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Post by Sleepy on Aug 30, 2007 11:52:50 GMT 1
And did you know they were in Kung Fu? Oh no they weren't |
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Post by Sleepy on Aug 30, 2007 11:53:27 GMT 1
And did you know they were in Kung Fu? Oh no they weren't They were 'glasshoppers' in King Fu |
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 30, 2007 12:15:32 GMT 1
Aaaah glasshopper.............
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Post by The witch on Aug 30, 2007 16:58:33 GMT 1
Used to have loads of grasshoppers/crickets in our Norfolk garden, but it did back onto a paddock. Not seen one here though ...... yet!
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Post by fatandy on Aug 30, 2007 17:44:22 GMT 1
I've noticed a large number around this year. definitely more than normal. On the opposite side of that, I haven't seen a single cranefly yet. Perhaps they all drowned in the summer rain ! Anyway, I caught this little blighter on my clematis Montana Rubens the other day. FA x  |
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Post by emseypop on Aug 30, 2007 17:52:14 GMT 1
such a good photo FA, worthy of the life on earth book  |
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Post by fatandy on Aug 30, 2007 18:57:11 GMT 1
Thank you. I like the chevrons on it's back leg !
FA x
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Post by sweetleaf on Aug 30, 2007 18:59:02 GMT 1
Thats wonderful Andy! I never thought they were so beautiful.  |
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Post by 4pygmies on Aug 30, 2007 20:50:18 GMT 1
That IS a wonderful picture! They are much more patterned than I thought. Which bit makes the noise? Anybody know?
I saw a Cranefly in the bathroom yesterday FA. When I tried to get it out of the window it made a funny noise at me and I realised it was red, bit scary........must be a funny foreign one. I don't like them flapping about at all...
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Post by debbiem on Aug 31, 2007 7:22:51 GMT 1
A RED Daddy long legs? Eeeeeek!  Don't they rub their back legs together(the crickets/grasshoppers) to make that noise?  |
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Post by 4pygmies on Aug 31, 2007 7:26:52 GMT 1
I dunno - that's the usual story but I don't know if it's actually true!
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Post by debbiem on Aug 31, 2007 7:29:03 GMT 1
Can't see it myself.........  |
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Post by 4pygmies on Aug 31, 2007 7:34:52 GMT 1
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