Cricket

Lots of insects around at present, following our really rather good summer (even if the past few weeks have been a little less so). These turned up on our back porch this morning, and I think they are oak bush crickets. They are quite slimly built, and are a uniform bright green colour, with a distinctive brown mark on the thorax. We have plenty of oak trees nearby, of course, and these are insects that fly readily and are attracted to lights at night.

I think they are rather attractive little beasts, and I particularly love their long antennae, which are in fact more than the length of the body.