Is this a grasshopper?

[NorthernSky]

Hi everyone, need help identifying this. It was sat on the bonnet for half an hour, moved about 10cm as I drove into town and back.

Grasshopper? Anyone know the specific scientific name for it?

TIA!

[Big Al.]

Looks like a Cricket to me.

Try here:-

https://www.amentsoc.org/insects/fact-files/orders...

[silverfoxcc]

It certainly looks like a cricket of some sort.

Whereabouts are you?

[NorthernSky]

I'm in Reading, relatively built up urban surroundings with the exception of the university botanical garden. Looking at that guide it seems like the 'bush cricket'. Wonder what it's doing out here at this time of year? It seems to have a horn on it's tail that is reddish in colour. A very unusual looking thing.

[silverfoxcc]

Bugger that.I am just down the road in Bracknell..stay away....stay away lol

[Doofus]

This is a grasshopper:



ETA: about 10cm long

[Easternlight]

Saddle backed bush cricket.
All insects are cold blooded, so he didn't move because he was bloody cold.
October is late to see them because of the temperature.

Edit to ad the "Horn" is the ovipositor so quite benign.

Edited by Easternlight on Friday 2nd November 20:07

[Mr Pointy]

It’s a snowy tree cricket.

[Fastpedeller]

Doofus said:

This is a grasshopper:



ETA: about 10cm long

Crikey - surely you mean 10mm?

[Doofus]

Fastpedeller said:

Crikey - surely you mean 10mm?

Nope. Big fker.

[Audicab]

Mr Pointy said:

It’s a snowy tree cricket.

No, it's a common field cricket,