Roesel's bush-cricket

Metrioptera roeselii

Common & widespread in Britain.

Seen mainly in the Summer season from June-October.

They are medium-sized Tettigoniid between 13–26 mm in length. They are normally brown or yellow, often with a greenish shade and a rarer green form also sometimes occurs.

An identifying feature is the yellow-green spots along the abdomen, just behind the pronotum, along with a matching margin along the border of the pronotum. This margin is entire, unlike the bog bush-cricket.

Males and Females can be easily differentiated, as the females have a long sword-like ovipositor at the end of their abdomen, which the Males lack.