| Author | Ragge, D.R. |
| Year | 1965 |
| Title | Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles |
| Series | Wayside and Woodland Series |
| Type | Book/Report |
| How Complete | All the British species and frequently recorded aliens |
| Source | Wayside and Woodland Series, 299pp, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. |
| Illustrations | Line drawings, vice-county maps and 22 colour plates of paintings |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | The standard dichotomous keys to families, genera, species are followed by detailed species accounts, often with named colour forms. All the native species are illustrated, often with several colour forms. Song diagrams representing the beats, their relative loudness and timing provide an alternative method of identification in the field. The book also gives a handy overview of the Watsonian vice-county system, including an appendix which lists the dividing lines of the county subdivisions. For many years the standard guide to our Orthoptera, and still useful, although the distribution maps are now very out of date following the phenomenal range expansions of many of our rarer coastal species during the last few decades. An update was published in 1973 in Ent Gazette. |
| Examine |  with x8 or x10 hand lens ( Stereo Microscope is also useful) |
| Specimen Preparation | Fresh pinned specimens |
| Identification difficulty | Generally straightforward, but they fade rapidly after death. |
