Now, I thought that I had got my head round the grasshoppers that we get out on the marsh: Meadow, Lesser Marsh and Field (along with the occasional Common Green)
I even thought I knew that if they were pink they were inevitably going to be Meadow. The short wings on this one alos pointed that way but I had been fooled! This glorious critter is in fact a juvenile (instar) Field Grasshopper with only half grown wings. The pinched in pattern on the back of the head (pronotum) is the clinching feature!
They say that a day when you learn something is not wasted and its is only 0938!
Field Grasshopper (Simon Lammin)