| Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) | Our commonest Orthopteran, found all over Worcestershire in virtually any grassland. |
| Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus) | Another common species but preferring dryer open sites including road verges. |
| Lesser Marsh Grasshopper (Chorthippus albomarginatus) | An under recorded species probably due to its' similarity to C. parallelus. Found in damp grassland. Big colonies occur around Grafton Wood and at Upton Warren NR. |
| Common Green Grasshopper (Omocestus viridulus) | Despite its name this is not very often encountered in the county. Found in unimproved grassland. |
| Mottled Grasshopper (Myrmeleotettix maculatus) | Requires maximum sun and so prefers dry, open sites with broken patches of grass, also Heathland. Recently found along the Malvern Hills. A good population exists at Hartlebury Common. |
| Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) | The cricket most likely to be encountered in Worcestershire. Found in woodland and hedgerows. |
| Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatisima) | More easily overlooked than P. griseoaptera but still quite common in our woodlands. Tiddesley Wood and the Wyre Forest hold good populations. |
| Oak Bush-cricket (Meconema thalassinum) | Most reports of this species come from bathrooms! The reason being that they live in tree tops and during their nocturnal flights they are drawn to light and so enter houses. |
| Great-green Bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) | WBRC hold a few old records for this species. My closest record is from the Chippenham by-pass. May be these new road "corridors" will bring this spectacular species to Worcestershire more often. |
| Short-winged Conehead (Conocephalus dorsalis) | See above. |
| Mole Cricket (Gyllotalpa gryllotalpa) | Nationally endangered. Known to have occurred in the Pershore area (see article in previous Worcestershire Record). |
| Wood Cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) | This species has its stronghold in the New Forest but WBRC hold an old record for Shrawley Woods. |
| House Cricket (Acheta domestica) | Can only survive in heated buildings. Sold as "food" for exotic pets. |
