Grey Bush-cricket

Platycleis albopunctata · Order: Orthoptera · Family: Tettigoniidae

Also called: Common Grey Bush-cricket

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Grey Bush-cricket
Photo: Gilles San Martin, CC BY-SA

The grey bush-cricket has a grey-brown body with reddish-brown markings on the head and neck, and long wings. It lives in dry, low-vegetation areas such as sunny slopes and sandy fields. It occurs across Europe and North Africa, including the British Isles where it is called the grey bush cricket. The species eats both plants and small insects. In mainland Europe it can be mistaken for the similar P. grisea.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Body colour is greyish to brownish with reddish-brown spots on the head and neck; wings are long.

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What it eats

Omnivorous to feeds on plants and smaller insects.

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Where it comes from

Occurs throughout Europe and North Africa; the nominate subspecies is present in the British Isles.

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Lookalikes

Can be confused with the very similar P. grisea in mainland Europe.

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More photos

Grey Bush-cricket photo 3
Photo: Gilles San Martin, CC BY-SA

Same family (Tettigoniidae)

Great Green Bush-cricketGreat Green Bush-cricketTettigonia viridissimaCan biteDark Bush-cricketDark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoapteraMediterranean KatydidMediterranean KatydidPhaneroptera nanaDamages trees, gardens or cropsFork-tailed Bush KatydidFork-tailed Bush KatydidScudderia furcataDamages trees, gardens or cropsSpeckled Bush-cricketSpeckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissimaRoesel's Bush-cricketRoesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platycleis_albopunctata

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Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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