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Article History

Received: 19 June 2019

Accepted: 20 October 2019

First Online: 5 November 2019

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The author declares that he has no conflict of interest.

: This article does not contain any studies involving Human participants.

: The study species is included on the IUCN European Red List as ‘Vulnerable’, however, the collection of this species is not currently subject to restriction by law in the UK and does not require collecting permits. Nevertheless, permission for pitfall trapping was obtained from the National Trust and/or Natural England. All applicable guidelines for the use of animals in research were followed and every attempt was made not to cause harm or undue stress to individuals. The crickets were caught live and pitfall traps were only left overnight to minimise the risk of mortality. The trapped invertebrates were generally released live, apart from a small number of scaly crickets that were removed in order to study oviposition and development in the lab. The number removed from each site at any one time was kept to a minimum and it is highly unlikely that this would have had a negative effect on the population.