Monthly Highlight
Here's your seasonal species, a current star in the nature's calendar, you might wish to choose to book for your custom Wildlife Tour...
JULY
Great Green Bush Cricket
(Cavalletta verde)
Great Green Bush Crickets are a stunning, grand insect species of mid-summer, and are really at home in healthy Somerset landscapes.
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A species of grasslands, woodland edge and scrubland, they can often be heard much sooner than they are seen, with their loud, electric, chirping call.
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Not easily mistook for other Somerset Orthoptera due to their sheer massive size, often clambering around shrubs, sounding as loud as a bird or small mammal rustling about.
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Some of the best places to see this incredible species are often really special, rich grassland downlands, and so are often also filled with many other interesting insects and wildflower species.
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July is a great month to catch up with this overlooked and formidable species.
Females can be seen much more readily with their long, striking ovipositor.
A stunning, vivid green, large Cricket species.
Singing loudly they can still be difficult to locate, but keep an eye on medium scrub for them holding a favoured territory.
GGBC may be bold and mighty but their colouration lends themselves to hiding away very easily amongst the foliage.
CONTACT WILDER SKIES
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