ODD ONE OUT

Amid a group of insects usually associated with providing the soundtrack to our summer afternoons lounging in meadows, the oak bushcricket is an outlier. Not only is it exclusively nocturnal, but no other orthopteran (grasshopper or cricket) is as wont to enter human habitation. Attracted by bright lights, this long-winged, emerald insect is so readily found inside houses that it has earned itself the moniker ‘bathroom bush-cricket’. Adults survive well into November, so leave the bathroom window ajar this month to try to attract a visitor with twitching antennae. FIND OUT MORE Identify crickets with the free iRecord app: http://bit.ly/2v8q2sz