What is it? A grasshopper? Our weta's look similar but brown and a little more scarier. They like to chase you also - just ask David "lol" I like the simplicity of the shot, the white background actually works well.
@Cherrill I thought he was a grasshopper but prepared to bow to your superior knowledge! They are not one and the same insect?! I did a google for cricket + images and got bats and balls haha!!!!!!!!
a bush cricket! yes we used to get them on the walls of the tent when we had a replica 17th century campaign tent. I always thought that, like me, they enjoyed the scent of the genuine cotton canvas!
@Cherrill Found him, thanks - I note the antennae are much longer than a grasshopper's and also that crickets are nocturnal so don't know what he was doing up at that time of day!
@creativeamateur I thought it might be a grasshopper but it's a cricket, much longer antennae - and nocturnal so he should really have been hunkered down to sleep somewhere when I took his pic!
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
By John Keats
The Poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead
In summer luxury,—he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.
@gnilrets Oh he didn't look anywhere near big enough to jump 20 feet - he did jump back in through the window when I thought I had let him out-now you have me worried!!!
@judithg I mentioned this cricket to Neil and he said it's been around in the shower room for a couple of days! I shall have to train him to alert me to photo opportunities, I think. We learnt Ode to Autumn at school.
@quietpurplehaze I did St Agnes Eve for O'level - lovely poem. I was a bit slow with my camera this morning - Rachel shot out of her bedroom to wake us with the news that a mouse was running up her curtains. The cat was in the dog house for a while and I dispatched Nigel to deal with it and then thought it would have made a good picture sitting on her cushion!
@judithg You've reminded me of Ode to a Nightingale (I find memory works in quite bizarre ways!) If a mouse was running up the curtains I think I'd find it hard to keep the camera still enough to get a shot!
@judithg I probably shouldn't say this but I hope it hasn't got a large family! Ray found a mouse quietly eating his grass seed when he opened up the shed a few weeks ago - he shouted for Jinks who didn't come and the mouse ran off.
This is a fantastic shot! I love a small splash of color on an all white background. It's very classic and striking. And bugs aren't all bad! I love crickets and spiders. They're so complex and amazing to look at close up! Great shot
@trevi70 Thank you so much for your enthusiastic comments. I love spiders but have not had much acquaintance with crickets yet - probably the first of many!!
August 12th, 2012
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On the Grasshopper and Cricket
By John Keats
The Poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead
In summer luxury,—he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.