a summer gone mad
i. most years the ants only swarm once, at most twice; they have swarmed at least FIVE TIMES this year, most recently this evening
ii. insects i have never seen in london before = bright poison-green cricket — i’ve seen two (one opposite the bfi and one in my bathroom)
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haha this fellow is as mad as me
Uh… That’s a grasshopper, city boy.
i. i know, i googled “giant grasshopper” bcz the photos were better!
ii. i said cricket bcz the word sounded better in the sentence
iii. it is anyway a difft insect from the one i saw just now, which was tiny
iv. i am rural shropshire born and raised!! and my dad is a professional naturalist!
maybe it was a katydid! that is the best word of all!!
I have one of those amazingly green wedge-bodied spindle-legged crickets living in my bedroom! The cat keeps failing to catch it. I think after googling about the place I decided it was a tree cricket.
I’ve seen lots of these around the house this summer. I accidentally hoovered one up yesterday, I thought it might be quicker on it’s feet.
i’ve had a handful of well-weird insects in my London flat this summer: green as a grasshopper, but with wings like a moth’s. I concluded they might actually be some strain of beetle!