Id please - "grasshopper" and caterpillars devouring gooseberry bush

[Amari]

I have recently bought a gooseberry bush and today noticed that the leaves are rapidly being eaten down to the stems. I thought of gooseberry saw fly but the two adult insects look like grasshoppers - bright green with a brown streak down the upper side of its abdomen. There were a few tiny bright green caterpillars on the foliage and on the compost. Grateful for Id (apols, not a native bee or wasp)

 

[Bluebell1985]

I have recently bought a gooseberry bush and today noticed that the leaves are rapidly being eaten down to the stems. I thought of gooseberry saw fly but the two adult insects look like grasshoppers - bright green with a brown streak down the upper side of its abdomen. There were a few tiny bright green caterpillars on the foliage and on the compost. Grateful for Id (apols, not a native bee or wasp)

Speckled bush cricket (maybe)

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-w...rates/beetles-and-bugs/speckled-bush-cricket/
Edit: Upon further review I'm pretty confident.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Speckled bush cricket (maybe)


Edit: Upon further review I'm pretty confident.

Good spot Bluebell
Never seen one of those

 

[Amari]

Speckled bush cricket (maybe)

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-w...rates/beetles-and-bugs/speckled-bush-cricket/Edit: Upon further review I'm pretty confident.

Many thanks Bluebell! I'm now conflicted: what to do!?

 

[Amari]

PS Bluebell, are you an entomologist? I've just looked up bush crickets: six species illustrated in my Readers Digest (!) manual. The thing that amazes me is that, not only are they all different species, they're all different genera! I take my hat off to taxonomists who can focus down to such minutiae......

 

[Bluebell1985]

Many thanks Bluebell! I'm now conflicted: what to do!?

I have a habit of buying multiples of anything I want to plant and letting nature take its course. What will be will be.

 

[Bluebell1985]

PS Bluebell, are you an entomologist? I've just looked up bush crickets: six species illustrated in my Readers Digest (!) manual. The thing that amazes me is that, not only are they all different species, they're all different genera! I take my hat off to taxonomists who can focus down to such minutiae......

Nope. I'm just very curious. If I see or hear something in nature that I'm unsure of, I will search and search online until I can identify it. I can get distracted very easily by bird song

 

[Markthebuilder]

Let them eat beets grow from older wood …… I think

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Many thanks Bluebell! I'm now conflicted: what to do!?

If they were attacking my gooseberry bush the Dipel would be deployed

 

[Midget Gem]

My gooseberry bushes have been completely stripped of leaves this year. Didn't see it happening but I have been left with just the branches and the berries (which are very small this year).

 

[Erichalfbee]

My gooseberry bushes have been completely stripped of leaves this year. Didn't see it happening but I have been left with just the branches and the berries (which are very small this year).

Get yourself some dipel or xentari. Will sort the sawfly larvae and your supers