Listen to the grey bush-cricket
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About the grey bush-cricket
The grey bush-cricket is a insect in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera).
What does the grey bush-cricket sound like?
Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
From Wikipedia
Platycleis albopunctata is a species of European bush cricket in the tribe Platycleidini.
This species occurs throughout Europe and in North Africa; several subspecies have been described (below). The nominate subspecies occurs in the British Isles where it is often called the grey bush cricket.
Related insects in the genus Platycleis
More from the family Tettigoniidae
Great green bush-cricket
Tettigonia viridissima
Wart-biter
Decticus verrucivorus
Upland green bush-cricket
Tettigonia cantans
Sickle-bearing bush-cricket
Phaneroptera falcata
Dark bush-cricket
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Short-winged cone-head
Conocephalus dorsalis
Roesel's bush-cricket
Metrioptera roeselii
Oak bush cricket
Meconema thalassinum
Sierra Nevadan Saddle Bush-cricket
Baetica ustulata
Speckled bush-cricket
Leptophyes punctatissima
Bog bush-cricket
Metrioptera brachyptera
Frequently asked questions
What does a grey bush-cricket sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the grey bush-cricket on this page. Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
What family does the grey bush-cricket belong to?
The grey bush-cricket (Platycleis albopunctata) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- BioAcoustica 421-1 Platycleis albopunctata 588r1 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 572 19 Platycleis albopunctata 744c – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 404-11 Platycleis albopunctata 467 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 398-9 Platycleis albopunctata 402r2 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 440 6 Platycleis albopunctata 743b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 565 2 Platycleis albopunctata grisea 778b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q1316351 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Platycleis albopunctata – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo – CC BY-SA 3.0