Montserrat is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about 16 km (10 mi) long and 11 km (7 mi) wide, with roughly 40 km (25 mi) of coastline. It is nicknamed "The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean" both for its resemblance to coastal Ireland and for the Irish ancestry of many of its inhabitants. Montserrat is the only non-fully sovereign full member of the Caribbean Community and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.
Orthoptera is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grasshoppers, locusts, and close relatives; and Ensifera – crickets and close relatives.
Westringia is a genus of Australian shrubs. As with other members of the mint family their upper petal is divided into two lobes. There are four stamens - the upper two are fertile while the lower two are reduced to staminodes. The leaves are in whorls of 3 or 4.
Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean region of North America. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of 34 km2 (13 sq mi), it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the northern 56% of the island constitutes the French overseas collectivity of Saint Martin. Sint Maarten's capital is Philipsburg. Collectively, Sint Maarten and the other Dutch islands in the Caribbean are often called the Dutch Caribbean.
Ostrea lurida, common name the Olympia oyster, after Olympia, Washington in the Puget Sound area, is a species of small, edible oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Ostreidae. This species occurs on the northern Pacific coast of North America. Over the years the role of this edible species of oyster has been partly displaced by the cultivation of non-native edible oyster species.
Oedemera lurida is a species of beetle belonging to the family Oedemeridae subfamily Oedemerinae.
Anaxipha exigua is a cricket in the genus Anaxipha, in the subfamily Trigonidiinae. Common names are "Say's trig" and "Say's bush cricket". The distribution range of Anaxipha exigua includes the Caribbean and North America.
Nemognatha lurida is a species of blister beetle in the family Meloidae. It is found in Central America and North America.
Hoplosphyrum boreale, known generally as the western bush cricket or long-winged scaly cricket, is a species of scaly cricket in the family Mogoplistidae. It is found in North America.
Hoplosphyrum is a genus of scaly crickets in the family Mogoplistidae. There are about six described species in Hoplosphyrum, from Africa and the Americas
Hapithus brevipennis, the short-winged bush cricket, is a species of bush cricket in the family Gryllidae. It is found in North America.
Platylyra is a genus of North American katydids or bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Platylyra californica.
Bootettix is a genus of slant-faced grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are at least two described species in Bootettix.
Anaxipha delicatula, the chirping trig, is a species of winged bush crickets, trigs in the family Trigonidiidae. It is found in North America.
Coenonycha lurida is a species of scarab beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in North America.
Cycloptilum squamosum, known generally as the Scudder's scaly cricket or Scudder's scaly bush cricket, is a species of scaly cricket in the family Mogoplistidae. It is found in North America.
Tafalisca is a genus of silent bush crickets in the family Gryllidae. Records for described species in Tafalisca are mostly from Central and South America.
Montezumina modesta, known generally as modest katydid, is a species of phaneropterine katydid in the family Tettigoniidae. Other common names include the modest bush cricket and Montezuma katydid. It is found in North America.
Oecanthus niveus, known generally as the narrow-winged tree cricket or snowy tree cricket, is a species of tree cricket in the family Gryllidae, which includes all crickets. First noted by Swedish Entomologist Charles de Geer in 1773 by a Pennsylvanian Specimen, it is found primarily in Eastern North America south of Canada, and also in the Caribbean.
