Grasshoppers and Crickets A detailed and up-to-date account of
the behaviour and ecology of grasshoppers and crickets. In this
latest New Naturalist volume, Ted Benton offers a comprehensive
account of the appearance, variations, behaviour, habitat, life-
cycles and distribution of all the native British species of
bush-crickets, crickets, groundhoppers and grasshoppers. Many
details from direct field observation are included, which are
published here for the first time. With up-to-date information
on newly arrived and recently established species, as well as
long-established non-native species – such as the house cricket
and greenhouse camel cricket--Benton pays special attention to a
key area of evolutionary thought that has stimulated an
international research focus on grasshoppers and crickets.
Recent approaches to mating and reproduction emphasise
differences and even conflicts of interest between males and
females. The sexually selected adaptations and counter-
adaptations to such conflicts of reproductiv