Sickle-Bearing Bush-Cricket

Phaneroptera falcata

Phaneroptera falcata, the sickle-bearing bush-cricket, is a species of orthopteran belonging to the subfamily Phaneropterinae. It is mostly herbivorous and commonly measures 24 to 36 mm long. It lives mainly in warm scrub and grasslands areas, also on dry shrubbery and in sand pits and gardens. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this insect was recorded 6 times across 2 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

See the Sickle-Bearing Bush-Cricket on the live map

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

Download every area as CSV

Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.