Adults mate in late summer and die in November. Active by day and night. Grasses, buds, leaves, fruit and insects. About 6 months. Close relatives include the upland green bush cricket, Tettigonia cantans , and the eastern green bush cricket, T candata.
Distribution Occurs throughout southern Britain, most of Europe and north Africa.
Conservation The great green bush cricket has suffered from the loss of its wild habitats, although its numbers are still stable in most of the range. It has managed to adapt well and can often be found living in more cultivated farming areas. To some people crickets are just a garden-variety insect, but in Asia they are the subject of intimate pillow talk, avid collecting and lively gambling matches. It brings to light a multitude of unexpected details of the cricket as mythological symbol, artistic subject, literary metaphor, and scientific specimen. Perhaps most facinating of all is the cricket lore of China and Japan, where keeping pet crickets is a national pastime with a history reaching back a thousand years.