Aids to Orthopteroid Identification
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 2:31 pm
Orthoptera as an Order includes Grasshoppers and Crickets. The following websites have photographs which may help you in your identification of sightings and/or photographs. The best bet is to key them out using the key in the Harley Books volume "Grasshoppers and allied Insects of Great Britain and Ireland" by Judith Marshall and E. C. M. Haes.
Website are:
http://wbrc.org.uk/worcRecd/Issue8/hopper3.htm
http://delta-intkey.com/britin/ort/www/intro.htm
http://www.david.element.ukgateway.net/ ... ppers1.htm
For Books then try:
Cheers
Steve
Website are:
http://wbrc.org.uk/worcRecd/Issue8/hopper3.htm
http://delta-intkey.com/britin/ort/www/intro.htm
http://www.david.element.ukgateway.net/ ... ppers1.htm
For Books then try:
- Guide to British Grasshoppers and Allied Insects, Field Studies Council/ Natural History Museum, 1999
A good general guide, convenient for taking out in the field.
Grasshoppers and Allied Insects of Great Britain and Ireland, Judith A Marshall and ECM Haes, Harley Books, 1988
A very comprehensive identification guide covering all British and Irish grasshoppers, crickets, bush-crickets, earwigs, cockroaches and stick insects.
Cheers
Steve