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Can anyone ID this rather handsome cricket seen the other week at Hampton Court Flower Show? Thank you!

Dave

It's a male Roesel's bushcricket Metrioptera roeselii. It has expanded its range hugely in recent decades and is now common in the London area.

M.

Thanks, Mikhail. I'd never have found that in a month of Sundays. I shall look out for more of them now.

Dave

Wow! Looks far too impressive to be in the UK!