Species map 1: Oak 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.
Oak bush-cricket, Meconema thalassinum (De Geer, 1773)
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This arboreal bush-cricket is widely distributed in Sussex. Found on isolated trees and in woodland and hedgerows. Also in ivy on old walls. May be found by beating, searching tree trunks by torchlight after dark or by searching the ground under trees after storms. Squashed examples may be found on roads. Attracted to light and often found in houses. Adults most abundant August-September but may persist till much later. The author found a freshly dead M.thalassinum on his car on the morning of 11 December 1999.