Species map 10. Speckled 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.
Speckled bush-cricket, Leptophyes punctatissima (Bosc, 1792)
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Generally widespread and common in Sussex wherever there is scrubland. Probably the most common bush-cricket in gardens. Although, the call of the male is inaudible at a distance, Speckled bush-crickets may be detected using bat detectors, by sweeping or beating or by carefully examining the upper leaves of shrubs or nettles.