22-08-2019, 09:56 AM
I am pretty sure I would be able to hear grass hoppers if there were any.
I usually grow my own veg and get out into the country more in the winter. In the summer the remains of the coal mines get too hot for grass so no grass hoppers there and they are not interested in the birch scrub that naturally takes over.
Most of the new houses are being built on the old pit head so no green field site has been lost.
The fields are either farmed or grazed so there is not a great deal of tall grass for grass hoppers.
There is a meadow that has lots of cowslip that is managed by a heritage center that had cowslips on it and a plot of woodland with bluebells every spring.
I am pretty sure that grass hoppers produce bursts of shore pulses in the same way as we used to do with a bit of card clipped to the forks of push bikes to make them sound like "motorbikes".
I usually grow my own veg and get out into the country more in the winter. In the summer the remains of the coal mines get too hot for grass so no grass hoppers there and they are not interested in the birch scrub that naturally takes over.
Most of the new houses are being built on the old pit head so no green field site has been lost.
The fields are either farmed or grazed so there is not a great deal of tall grass for grass hoppers.
There is a meadow that has lots of cowslip that is managed by a heritage center that had cowslips on it and a plot of woodland with bluebells every spring.
I am pretty sure that grass hoppers produce bursts of shore pulses in the same way as we used to do with a bit of card clipped to the forks of push bikes to make them sound like "motorbikes".
