male
Meadow
Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus),
Rainham Marshes, England, Aug 2019
female
Meadow
Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus),
Purfleet, England, Aug 2022
female
Meadow
Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus),
Benfleet Creek, England, Aug 2019
male
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus), Villevaudé,
Paris, Île-de-France, Aug 2019
female
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus), Epping
Forest, England, Aug 2020
female
Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus), Epping
Forest, England, Aug 2020
Rainham-Purfleet NCN
Route 13,
Essex,
England51°
29' 38.05" N 0° 12' 23.76" E1 August 2018
Calling song/stridulation from a male Meadow
Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) in long grass bordered
by Hawthorn/Blackthorn/Gorse scrub.
A short rattle composed
of up to 14 elements in bursts up to 1.6 sec (at 25°C),
begining quietly and quickly increasing in volume, before
ending abruptly.
Rainham-Purfleet NCN
Route 13,
Essex,
England51°
29' 38.05" N 0° 12' 23.76" E1 August 2018
Oscillogram of calling song/stridulation from a male Meadow
Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) in long grass bordered
by Hawthorn/Blackthorn/Gorse scrub.
Rainham-Purfleet NCN
Route 13,
Essex,
England51°
29' 38.05" N 0° 12' 23.76" E 30 August 2018
Calling song/stridulation from a male Meadow
Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) in long grass bordered
by Hawthorn/Blackthorn/Gorse scrub.
A short rattle composed
of up to 17 elements in bursts up to 3.0 sec (at 17°C),
begining quietly and quickly increasing in volume, before
ending abruptly. Compare the speed of this individual
at lower temperature with the above at higher temperature
on 1 Aug 2018.
Calling song/stridulation from a captive male Meadow
Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) in a
terrarium.
A short rattle composed
of up to 14 elements in bursts up to 2.75 sec (at 22.2°C
ambient room temp, no heat lamp or direct sun),
begining quietly and quickly increasing in volume, before
ending abruptly.
Oscillogram of calling song/stridulation from a captive
male Meadow
Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) in a
vivarium (at 22.2°C
ambient room temp, no heat lamp or direct sun).