Late this afternoon Grillou had a rather unusual visitor. Here she is:
Meet Tettigonia viridissima. She's a Great Green Bush Cricket: une grande sauterelle verte.
How do I know she's a female? Simple. That thing at her rear end is her ovipostor. She's laying eggs. In - um - the coir doormat in our hall :-D . She seemed remarkably unfazed by the presence of a large pinkish-brown animal crawling round her with a camera just a few centimetres away. Tetti (hope she doesn't mind me being familiar) stayed for nearly an hour, during which time she left us with (I'm told) over 300 eggs ...
Life's never dull, here.
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