A guide to all 52 species of British and Irish bush-crickets, crickets, grasshoppers, earwigs and stick-insects. There are full descriptions of song, life history, behaviour, habitat and distribution, plus colour plates of sex and colour variations. The 1990 paperback includes new records not included in the 1988 hardback edition.
Cassette recording also available - see Sound Guide to Grasshoppers...
`Not just an identification guide; it is set to become `the orthopterist's bible'.' New Scientist.