The Bow-Winged Grasshopper (Chorthippus biguttulus) is a small insect.
The Bow-Winged Grasshopper varies in colour from green to black-brown to rose pink. The male often has a red tip on its abdomen. It has long, strong hind legs that enable it to jump long distances. It has short antennae.
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The Grasshopper Saga (Saga ephippigera ephippigera) is a medium-sized insect. It is in the Saginae sub-family of bush crickets, from the family of the Katydids.
The Grasshopper Saga has varied colours, from light-green and dark-green to dark-brown or light-brown. Its head is usually darker than its body. The male has short wings, but the female is wingless. It has large antennae. Its legs have thorns.
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The Cambodian Short-Horned Grasshopper is an insect in the Acrididae family of grasshoppers.
The Cambodian Short-Horned Grasshopper is bright green on its upperparts and yellow-green on its underbelly. It has a black line from its eye, running along the length of its body. It has a pair of wings and short antennae. Its back legs are enlarged, which enable it to jump long distances. Its legs have three segments.
The Robber Fly (Asilidae sp.) is an insect. It is also known as the Assassin Fly.
The Robber Fly is hairy with bristles. Its body has three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. Its body is long and tapered, and can be brown, black, or grey. It has a short proboscis (sucking nose) and three simple eyes, called ocelli, between their two compound eyes. Its antennae are short with three segments. It has six spiny legs. It has a sharp ovipositor (egg-laying segment). It has smoky-coloured wings.
The Jungle Nymph (Heteropteryx dilatata) is an insect in the Heteropterygidae family of stick insects.
The Jungle Nymph female is bright green and the male is mottled brown. It has a leaf-shaped body and six legs. It has a pair of long antennae. The male has large pink wings and can fly. Females have short pink wings, but cannot fly.
The Cave Cricket (Phaeophilacris bredoides) is an insect that looks like a spider, but it is related to the grasshopper.
The Cave Cricket has three segments: head, thorax, and abdomen. It is yellowish-grey to brown with a long body, long antennae and long hind legs (back legs). Its legs are covered with small, dark spots. It needs long antennae to feel surfaces and its prey in the dark. It has three pairs of legs (6 legs) with one pair of antennae, and a pair of false legs near its tail to act as stabilizers.