Except, perhaps, for a post about local flora, this will be the last of my blogs about what delights of Nature I discovered during my recent visit to Weymouth, and this is definitely my most unexpected find, an all-white grasshopper. It didn’t have pink eyes so I don’t think it qualifies as albino but it was certainly unusual.

I wasn’t sure what type of grasshopper it was, as it’s a nymph not an adult, and they can be tricky to identify, but I received some valuable assistance from the National iRecord verifier for Orthopteroid insects when I posted a photo on social media. David wasn’t sure either at first but I used Photoshop to fiddle with the light and contrast in my image so as to show the features a little more clearly and, from that, David could tell: ‘There is a fair amount of kink in the side keel, shown pretty clearly … Given that it actually looks most like Field GH, that they are the ones likeliest to be nymphs now & that they are also one of the most variable spp, the chances of it being anything else are slim.’ So, Field grasshopper it is!

Just to illustrate how very unusual this creature was, here’s a photo of a normal Field grasshopper that I took just a few days ago.