Is there a downside to flight? Looking for trade-offs in bush-crickets

From: “Contrasting patterns  of  macroptery  in  Roesel’s  bush  cricket  Metrioptera  roeselii  (Orthoptera,  Ensifera)”, S. Szanyi, A. Nagy, I.A. Rácz, Z. Varga (2014), Estonian Journal of Ecology 63:4 doi: 10.3176/eco.2014.4.07 Click to access ecol-2014-4-299-311.pdf Roesel’s bush-crickets (Metrioptera roeselii) have been presenting an interesting problem to scientists in recent years. Why? Because they have been expanding across …

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