Italian or Tree Crickets in Kent (1 Viewer)

Morning all.

On the Dungeness Bird Obs website it is reported that a large number of Italian or Tree Crickets (Oecanthus pellucens) have been found on the peninsula.

Is this the bridgehead for a colonisation?

Regards

Quite probably, although it's been found twice before in the UK - in Kent and Cambridgeshire (as mentioned on the Dunge website). It's also been expanding in Europe.
Martin

Notice they've also had a single Phaneroptera falcata which did breed for a couple of years or so at Hastings CP.

From what I've read the colony of Tree Crickets sounds as though there are quite a lot of them, which suggests they've been present for a year or more previously undetected.

Hopefully they'll consolidate their status here.