Gordon Beningfield: Wart-biter Bush Cricket

Artist: Gordon Beningfield
1936 - 1998
Nationality: British
Artwork Year: 1985
Image Size: 7 by 6 inches
Overall Size: 13 by 11 inches
Medium: Water Color on Cold Press Illustration Board

Called the Wart-biter Bush Cricket because long ago people thought it could cure warts, it is one of nine hundred species of crickets found throughout the world. With its long antennae, sweeping over its back almost like reins, it is easy to understand why this creature is also often called the Long-horned Grasshopper. In America this Bush Cricket is known as the Katydid. But, wherever it lives and whatever name it goes by the Wart-biter Bush Cricket is known for its charming cricket song which fills the countryside on warm summer evenings. This familiar sound is a love song in the truest sense. For in scientific tests, the female has responded to the alluring melody even when she hears it only over the telephone unaccompanied by the visual reinforcement of seeing her mate or smelling any scent which might attract her. The chirping sound is made not with the cricket's mouth, but with its wings. To attract its mate, the cricket will rub together a special scraper and file vein found on the wings. Obviously for this to be effective, the crickets are equipped with hearing apparatuses. In addition, like its grasshopper relatives, the Wart-biter Bush Cricket possesses long hind legs.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the Great Britain 29p Wart-biter Bush Cricket stamp issued March 12, 1985.

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