Species map 5. Grey bush-cricket. Sussex Orthoptera - Online Atlas
For ease of comparison with Haes and Harding (1997), records are shown as: pre-1970, 1970-1999 and as 2000 (onwards). The eventual aim is to update all maps as completely as possible with records for 2001 onwards, to show the status of Sussex orthopteroids in the first decade of the new millennium. Records shown for boundary squares may pertain to neighbouring counties.
Grey bush-cricket, Platycleis albopunctata (Goeze, 1778)
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All known Sussex colonies are coastal. Usually common where it occurs in scrubland on dunes and cliffs but colonies may be small and highly localised and all sites are of conservation importance. In West Sussex, known only from Pilsey Island, East Head, Pagham Harbour and Fishersgate. The colony at Fishersgate persists along a limited undeveloped section of otherwise urban and industrial coastline. More widespread in East Sussex from near Beachy Head to Camber. A nationally scarce insect. Grey-bush-crickets are easily found when active and calling in warm weather but are hard to find in cool weather. Colonies are at their peak between late July and September but a few individuals may persist into November. The author found one adult on 4 December 1998 at Fishergate.