Nature Table: Grasshopper

There are five true species of grasshopper in Ireland, along with a few related groundhoppers and bush-crickets. 

Two of these species are associated with wetlands, the large marsh grasshopper with raised and blanket bog and the lesser marsh grasshopper with salt-marshes.

Two of them, the field grasshopper and the common green grasshopper, are associated with rough grassland and unkempt meadows and the fifth, the mottled grasshopper, straddles both habitats.