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Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket  Phaneroptera falcata


 

Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) © Fraser Simpson

Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) - female, Wye NNR, Kent, England, Sep 2021

 

 

Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) © Fraser Simpson

Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) - female, Wye NNR, Kent, England, Sep 2021

 

 

Habitat of Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) © Fraser Simpson

Calcareous grassland on chalk downland with Hazel (Corylus avellana) and Bramble (Rubus fruticosus) scrub - habitat of Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata), Wye NNR, Kent, England, Sep 2021

 

 

 

 

Sonogram of Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) stridulation [sicklebearingbushcricket117986ecut1]

Wye NNR, Kent, England  18 September 2021

Calling song/stridulation from a male Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) in calcareous grassland on chalk downland at 22°C.

A single, faint, largely ultrasonic element/syllable repeated every 1.2 to 1.8 seconds. Mostly inaudible to my ears, except at very close range with microphone right next to the insect (much louder with bat detector set to 20 kHz). Long series lasting several minutes often preceded by an echeme of around 16 syllables at a rate of 8/sec (80-90 ms per syllable).

[File name: sicklebearingbushcricket117986ecut1] Click here for the MP3 file


     

 

Oscillogram of Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) stridulation [sicklebearingbushcricket117986ecut1]

Oscillogram of Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) stridulation [sicklebearingbushcricket117986ecut1]

Oscillogram of Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) stridulation [sicklebearingbushcricket117986ecut1]

Wye NNR, Kent, England  18 September 2021

Oscillogram of calling song/stridulation from a male Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) in calcareous grassland on chalk downland at 22°C.

 

 

 

Sonogram of Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) stridulation [sicklebearingbushcricket117986ecut2]

Wye NNR, Kent, England  18 September 2021

Calling song/stridulation from a male Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) in calcareous grassland on chalk downland at 22°C.

Occasionaly producing a faster series, with syllables every 0.3 to 0.4 sec. At 7.8, 24.6 and 29.9 seconds in this recording it produced two or three even higher frequency syllables.

[File name: sicklebearingbushcricket117986ecut2] Click here for the MP3 file


     

 

Oscillogram of Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) stridulation [sicklebearingbushcricket117986ecut2]

Oscillogram of Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) stridulation [sicklebearingbushcricket117986ecut2]

Wye NNR, Kent, England  18 September 2021

Oscillogram of calling song/stridulation from a male Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) in calcareous grassland on chalk downland at 22°C.

 

 

 

Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) © Fraser Simpson

Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) - male, Wye NNR, Kent, England, Sep 2021

 

 

Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) © Fraser Simpson

Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) - male, Wye NNR, Kent, England, Sep 2021

 

 

 


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