What's the difference

Just showing my ignorance of small creatures with six or eight legs again, what's the difference between Crickets and Grass Hoppers. I saw the grass twitching yesterday and eventually found these jumping about, they were about 8 mm long. ID any one ?

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Nice capture. Never seen this kind of grasshopper before

Thanks for the reply, you seem sure they are Grasshoppers. So can you tell me the difference between them and Crickets, or isn't there one; is it just a different name for the same thing.

Very cool shots. Never seen this one before either.
I am no expert, but usually Crickets have much longer/thinner antennae. And often their hind legs are spread out more from the body.

You can check out this site. Here are a bunch of pics of both crickets and grasshoppers. You will begin to see how they differ.
http://bugguide.net …eys=cricket&sea​rch=Search

Nice shots of this hopper. The only difference I know is, Bluegills like crickets while Bass prefer hoppers.

As a general rule, the differences between grasshoppers, groundhoppers and crickets are:
1. the antennae of grasshoppers and groundhoppers are shorter than their bodies.
2. the collar (known as the pronotum) just behind the head of grasshoppers is short and saddle-shaped, but is much longer (in fact, as long or longer than the body) in groundhoppers.
3. the antennae of crickets are generally longer than their bodies (the exception is the mole-crickets)3.

Many grasshoppers and crickets are able to make a song that is specific to their species. Grasshoppers and groundhoppers make this sound by rubbing their legs and wings against each other. Crickets, bush-crickets and mole-crickets do it by rubbing their fore-wings together. Scientists call this 'singing' stridulating4.

Good captures
Brian v.

Thanks for the link striving, way too many pictures to compare there; my head is spinning. Thanks tbsteph, I'm convinced that as a "general rule" it's called a Grasshopper and it's not a Cricket.
canon loader
orionmystery and Brian, thanks for the comment. I didn't think they were very good shots and wasn't going to post them, the standard in here is soooooooooo!!!! high.

Hiya Mick,

Lovely shots, nothing wrong with them, they're well worthy of showing !!!

Cheers for now
Mark