Thanks Daintiness - thats it! Checked with the NHM website and it exactly fits the Southern oak bush-cricket. When you turn it upside-down you can see where its back legs would have been.
This was in my conservatory about a month ago. It seems to be a different species to yours. Unfortunately I later found him or her dead. Perhaps they die in the Autumn.
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I think you're probably right daintiness. Maybe it's lost its back legs. Certainly the turned up tail is the r e.
Looks right to me Daintiness, I wonder how it got up on the window ledge without its back legs
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Thanks Daintiness - thats it! Checked with the NHM website and it exactly fits the Southern oak bush-cricket. When you turn it upside-down you can see where its back legs would have been.
Thanks again all.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi Ranunculus,
This was in my conservatory about a month ago. It seems to be a different species to yours. Unfortunately I later found him or her dead.
Perhaps they die in the Autumn.
Sorry Pottie Pam I don't look on the forum very often when I haven't anything current going on!
Yours is similar, I'd say it was a bush-cricket, but they all look so much alike.