As a result of funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, we were able to run some wildlife survey technique training days in 2014 and 2015. The results of the Orthoptera surveys done as part of this training are below.
| Class | Order | Family | Species | Common name | Orthoptera survey training data 6/9/15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | |||||
| Insecta | |||||
| Orthoptera | |||||
| Acrididae (Grasshoppers) | |||||
| Chorthipippus brunneus | Common field grasshopper | 42 | |||
| Chorthipippus parallelus | Meadow grasshopper | 61 | |||
| C. alobomarginatus | Lesser marsh grasshopper | 14 | |||
| Tettigoniidae (Bush-crickets) | |||||
| Conocephalus dorsalis | Short-winged conehead | 5 | |||
| Metrioptera roeselli | Roesel’s Bush-cricket | 4 | |||
| Tetrigidae (Groundhoppers) | |||||
| Tetrix undulata | Common groundhopper | 8 | |||
| Tetrix subulata | Slender groundhopper | 3 |