Day 207/18/ A Speckled Bush Cricket

We see a few of these each summer in our garden. While they do munch through vegitation, there are never enough to be a problem.
The speckled bush-cricket is a species of bush-cricket common in well vegetated areas of England and Wales, including our garden.
You can find these insects perched motionless in bushes and sometimes in porches and on window ledges. They are most active at dusk and at night.
This is a female, identified by their sabre-like ovipositor.