Roesel's Bush-cricket

Found on the same day as the Mottled Grasshopper, this is a bush-cricket: Roesel's Bush-cricket, Metrioptera roeselii. You can tell a bush-cricket from a grasshopper easily: the latter have long antennae, usually longer than their bodies. Also the females have long, scythe-like ovipositors. Roesel's Bush-cricket has a cream edge to the prothorax. It is also an organism that is spreading in the UK as a result of global warming.

Mottled Grasshopper

You will have to zoom in or take my word for it, but this is a Mottled Grasshopper, Myrmeleotettix maculata. You can tell because of the distinctive club-tipped antennae (lacking a white tip). This was take up on the heath in Ashdown Forest back in July.