Grasshopper or bush cricket?

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ellas iasi, Romania Jun 13, 2018

Hello
Can you help me pin this guy?
Approximately 4-5 cm body (quite impressive!), long legs, long antennae.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jun 13, 2018

This is a tettigoniid, the family to which katydids and bush crickets belong. I cannot pin a specific name on it right now; will try later when I gave a bit of time...

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ellas iasi, Romania Jun 13, 2018

Thank you, I wait :)

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jun 14, 2018

It might be Decticus verrucivorus, a bush cricket known as the wart biter - http://www.freenatureimages.eu/animals/Orthoptera,%20Sprinkhanen-Krekels,%20Grasshoppers-Crickets/Decticus%20verrucivorus,%20Wart-biter/Decticus%20verrucivorus%207,%20Wrattenbijter,%20Saxifraga-Mark%20Zekhuis.jpg

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Loretta_NJ (Zone 6b) Jun 15, 2018

Interesting name. From wikipedia:
" Its English and scientific names derive from the age-old practice of using the cricket to bite warts from the skin."
Who knew? Can't imagine.

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ellas iasi, Romania Jun 15, 2018

Wow! That's amazing! Thank you! These little fellows never stop to amaze us :)

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