Gemeine Eichenschrecke 🦗
lat. Meconema thalassinum
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍#Zofingen #Schweiz

Die sass plötzlich auf dem Balkontisch, sprang wohl von einer Balkonpflanze her. Ich gab ihr #Wasser, sie schaffte es aber leider nicht.

#Eichenschrecke #Meconema #Schrecken #Tiere #Insekten #Fotografie #Fauna #Grillen #Hitze #Hitzewelle #OakGrasshopper #Grasshoppers #Animals #Insects #Photography #Fauna #Crickets #Heat #HeatWave #Switzerland #shotoniphone

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Plants #Crickets

A quiet evening walk today, so only a couple of shots.

was there a nuclear event in eastern US and Europe or something?

I get on Slack this morning and there's no messages except automated ones 😱

usually everyone else is already well up-and-at-'em (since I'm in the west-most timezone of our company)

is a little weird

#crickets

En nu gaan alle andere scheidsrechters en officials van de FIFA in staking om op te komen voor hun collega.....
#crickets

https://www.nu.nl/wk-voetbal/6398661/somalische-scheidsrechter-op-wk-voetbal-is-toegang-tot-vs-geweigerd.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LoudAndProud

Crickets:
🎵 ELASTIC

#Crickets

https://soundofcrickets.bandcamp.com/track/elastic

https://open.spotify.com/track/61Zf1AF3YTCdZqIMI08XbA

A Balrog in the tunnels: Scientists discover a new cave #cricket species on the tiny island of Kastellorizo, Greece https://phys.org/news/2026-05-balrog-tunnels-scientists-cave-cricket.html paper: https://jor.pensoft.net/article/187943/

"On the island of #Kastellorizo, researchers surveyed an artificial tunnel, the island's sole accessible land #cave. They encountered a population of cave #crickets bearing characteristics of the cave-dwelling genus Dolichopoda... The epithet 'balrogi' links deep excavation with the revelation of hidden subterranean fauna"