Insect I.D Help?

[Forest fella]

Evening, Earlier a cricket or grasshopper with an orangy? Body/Legs landed on my mum while she was getting the washing in off the line and she told me that she'd never seen one of them before, So I've Googled it and cam up with nothing that match's, any tip's or Pic's Welcomed.
Cheer's

 

[Toddy]

Soldier Beetle ?
They do fly.

https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/common-red-soldier-beetle

 

[Woody girl]

I get similar looking beetles on my lillys. So it might be a lilly beetle. I'm not good at insects so I could be wrong. (Probably will be)

 

[Broch]

Soldier Beetle ?
They do fly.

https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/common-red-soldier-beetle

Commonly known as the Hogweed Bonking Beetle

There are not that many species of grasshopper and cricket in the UK but the colouring can vary quite a bit. See https://www.orthoptera.org.uk/sites/default/files/pdf/Common Bush-crickets and Grasshoppers.pdf for example. Unfortunately you would need to catch it to make certain identification.

 

[Toddy]

I get similar looking beetles on my lillys. So it might be a lilly beetle. I'm not good at insects so I could be wrong. (Probably will be)

I had those on my lilies too for a couple of years. They were awfully red looking though, not really 'orange' though.

 

[Woody girl]

Ha ha. I knew I'd be wrong and someone would put me right ! . Does look a bit like a lilly beetle tho.
I've never studied them closely. Maybe next time I get one I should. I'm a butterfly and bee person. Not that I know too much about them either, but I do enjoy watching them so much even if I can't identify them

 

[Forest fella]

I've just showed those pic's / site's to the boss soz my mum and she say's nope none of them,it had orange legs. And she's lived in this neck of the woods 67yrs and it's a new one to her. Maybe a cross breed or an invader?.
cheer's tho

 

[Toddy]

No idea then, the soldier is the only common orange one I know.

Did you have a look at the UK beetle recording site ?

http://www.coleoptera.org.uk/beetle-families

or Orthoptera's

https://www.orthoptera.org.uk/node/1035

 

[nitrambur]

The meadow grasshopper has orange and pink variants https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-19410483

 

[Broch]

The most orange coloured British grasshopper is probably the Common Field (Chorthippus brunneus) but the Woodland grasshopper (Omocestus rufipes) is also quite reddish on the legs (sometimes - they all vary in colour a lot). One photograph I have of the Common Green grasshopper (Omocestus viridulus - the clues are in the names really) shows a green female and a yellow/grey male!

To tell grasshoppers apart in the field you have to look carefully at a number of things like thorax markings etc. On the meadow bugs course I was on two weeks ago the expert had to look very carefully with a magnifying glass to make a distinct identification!

No idea then, the soldier is the only common orange one I know.

There are 4,000 species of soldier beetle Toddy - most of them red, orange and black colouring. The one commonly seen on Umbellifers is bright orange.

 

[Toddy]

That's the one

 

[Wander]

Hmm...as with the 'unusual fox' thread, when people see something they don't immediately recognise it is common for the mind to play tricks and the animal gets stranger and stranger as time passes and no matter what people suggest the witness digs in and claims that what they've seen is nothing like anything else.

 

[Toddy]

Ha ha. I knew I'd be wrong and someone would put me right ! . Does look a bit like a lilly beetle tho.
I've never studied them closely. Maybe next time I get one I should. I'm a butterfly and bee person. Not that I know too much about them either, but I do enjoy watching them so much even if I can't identify them

It was the right sort of colour range, and it definitely noticeable

I live next to a nature walk, really the grown up hedges running alongside an old mineral railway line, that runs parallel to a burn that rises as a fresh water spring about 400m away. We get a tremendous number of beetles, but as Broch says, there are thousands of them, and the differences can be miniscule. Teaching the children I just described them using common names, 'the devil's coachman....that's the aggressive black one that attacks earthworms, I think it's called the devil's coach horse too, 'horny gollochs' aka earwigs, 'slaters' or woodlice, soldiers in their bright jackets, stag beetles (ours probably aren't really, I think they're just huge ground beetles, but the kids call them stags) shield bugs, etc.,
Lot of bees too, and masses of moths. I like hearing the common names across the country for the insects

Sorry Forest fella, we've rather gone O.T.