Hi Colin,

Thank you for your help, I thought that was an excellent photo you found. Good to know what it looks like as a live cricket, apparently not many people get to see them, alive or dead, so I feel quite privileged.

Thanks, Jacqui

Thank you Dave for putting the photo up. Thank you Chris, you set me on the right track, digging around on the net tells me it's an Oak Bush Cricket - there is an Oak tree near the pond!!! I have never seen a cricket before, let alone a dead one with chewed off legs, I also didn't know they were nig...

I know this is about butterfly id's, but you all seem very knowledgeable and I have no idea what this is, please can anyone help? If it's a butterfly it's not like any I've seen, the same applies to dragonflies and it's not a lacewing, I don't know much about moths. Head to tail length is about 1&qu...