The Wandering Ecologist Podcast

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When Bush-crickets Bite Back: the life and times of the Wart-biter

When Bush-crickets Bite Back: the life and times of the Wart-biter21 sept 202536 min

Join me at Brighton’s Castle Hill National Nature Reserve for episode 3, where I’m hot on the trail of Britain’s most endangered insect: the Wart-biter Bush-cricket. They’re tricky to find so luckily I’m with my pal and brilliant entomologist, Alice Parfitt, who is leading on the species recovery programme of this impressive species through her work at Buglife and the Changing Chalk partnership. With the backdrop soundscape of Corn Buntings, Yellowhammers and Linnets we tune in to the distinc...