Species map 12. Field 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.
Filed cricket, Gryllus campestris (Linnaeus, 1758)
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The last remaining native British colony of Field crickets is in West Sussex. As a subject of the Species Recovery Programme reintroductions have taken place at former sites and the species has been introduced to other apparently suitable sites. The species is listed as Endangered and is protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act. The field cricket still occurs on Jersey.