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Bog Bush Cricket

Metrioptera brachyptera

1,522Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
25Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr3
May6
Jun125
Jul361
Aug535
Sep335
Oct38
Nov3
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England122
2York England122
3Devon England95
4Worcestershire England87
5North Yorkshire England76
6Norfolk England70
7Salford England60
8Warrington England59
9Cumbria England52
10Surrey England47
11Doncaster England39
12Bracknell Forest England28
13Wrexham Wales25
14East Riding of Yorkshire England19
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland19
1,415 England19 Scotland86 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 25 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,522
Peak month
August
Counties with records
25
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Metrioptera brachyptera
Also known as
Bog Bush-Cricket
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,358
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Rare and scarce species, Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Metrioptera
Name with authority
Metrioptera brachyptera (Linnaeus, 1761)
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1758291 · GBIF 1685536