Insect ID - any ideas?

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I walked into my kitchen just now and found this little guy sitting on the wall.
Obviously it's a grasshopper or cricket of some kind but I've not seen any this size or with
such vivid colour before.
It's body is about the size of a 'AAA' battery and it's a much brighter green than the photo
would suggest.
Any ideas?

Here she is a little closer up.

Apologies for the poor quality pics - I'm still getting used to the camera.

 

[Dave]

My guess is the Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) Flightless, lives among nettles and brambles, vry hard to spot. Quite common in rural gardens, song, a weak scratching sound, difficult to detect.

 

[rich59]

A bit of surfing suggests it could be a great green bush cricket.

 

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I've just checked a few Google Images and the Speckled Bush Cricket (female) looks about right.
It's a big example of one though

 

[British Red]

Certainly female (note the ovipositor at the back). I would go with Great Grenn Bush Cricket if its that big since a AA battery is 46mm long and so is a Great Green

Red

 

[British Red]

Switch - speckled Green average 14mm - it huge if it is AA sized!

Red

 

[Karr]

I agree with speckled bush cricket, check out their nymphs. People use bat detectors to help find these, as Dave said, very hard to detect in the cover.


Regards Sparrow.

 

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Switch - speckled Green average 14mm - it huge if it is AA sized!

Red

$orry Red, I missed an 'A' off of my description. I meant to say it was 'AAA' sized. Still pretty big though!

 

[British Red]

Aaah - either way tis a pretty thing I have problems with my As too. I have been accused of not knowing them from my elbows

 

[mace242]

I'm following the rest with great green bush cricket. These can occasionally grow big. I was hostelling in Wales a few years back and woke in the middle of the night with one sat on my wall - it was so big that I thought a bat had got in in the night. http://www.countryside-trust.org.uk/edge/edgecricket.htm says they can grow up to 5cm! We get smaller ones near my house - for some strange reason I've had to move a few from our bathroom. Why they go up there is a mystery to me - we certainly have no brambles in there.