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I was walking along our garden path, headed for some fruits I wanted to photograph. I happened to glance down at the foliage of some paeonies .I saw a distinct brown strip on a leaf, with the impression of long, thin legs on either side of it. I though it was a cranefly but not one I had seen before.
Only when I got closer did I see that it was a bush cricket. Only recently, I reported that I had seen none at all this year, normally having no difficulty in find various stages of them. I could see from the brown "saddle" that it was a mature male. Above all, the long, brown wings made it a Conehead. There were only two possibilities, the second being a long-winged form of the Short-winged Conehead, in which the tips of the male's cerci are upturned, not the case here. So it is Conocephalus dorsalis, which I have never seen before anywhere.
He was rather wary of my presence, moving or jumping around readily, at the very least hiding around the far side of stems. He spent a lot of time in the ugly, degrading plastic covering of a plant support. Of all places, my hand was the final substrate from which he jumped then flew into the foliage.
His body seems to be more wrinkled than with other species
Olympus EM-1, (aperture priority), Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, f8, 9 or 11, hand-held.
Harold
Harold Gough 2018
Harold Gough 2018
Harold Gough 2018
Harold Gough 2018
Harold Gough 2018
Harold Gough 2018
Harold Gough 2018
Harold Gough 2018
Edited on Aug 16, 2018 at 01:15 AM · View previous versions
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