grasshoppers

Grasshoppers abound in forest clearings, borders and grasslands all over Thailand. In fact, if nothing much else is in the neighbourhood, there's almost certainly a grasshopper or two around.



Acrididae Nymph

These grasshoppers are only about 1cm long.





		Locusts are not as destructive here as elsewhere in the world but are a common delicacy	Another grasshopper portrait

These are some of the grasshoppers I see less often

Grasshoppers and crickets mating
			mole cricket, common in rice fields - deep-fried, goes well with local whisky (the more that are eaten the better as their continuous piercing screech drowns Friends on the TV) every night

	when picked up this katydid screams- by rubbings its forewings together		Not sure what this is or where it belongs- it arrived in our garden one day and was gobbled up by a lizard the next



a nocturnal grasshopper		a cricket devouring a moth- and I thought they only ate leaves

		this cricket has just caught a ladybird



	the grasshopper is well camouflaged except when he's on a leaf		remains of a grasshopper being devoured by ants





	Gryllidae	Eumastacidae	Gryllidae

Eumastacidae	psychedelic grasshopper	Eumastacidae	cricket Gryllidae

mating over, the male cricket (Gryllidae) is out as fast as he can ....

Acrididae Nymph	Katydid (Tettigoniidae) devouring a dragonfly

a well concealed grasshopper Acrididae

	Orthoptera Gryllidae

			any time, any place will do- this time on my car tire

		Aularches miliaris- known in Thai as the 'ghost grasshopper'





courtship or deterrence?

Sanaa intermedia



			Sasuma species, probably male

			what it looks like to be pursued by a grasshopper

amazing grasshopper facts

Thanks to Michel Chantraine and Jérôme Constant for help with identification