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Picture 3 'probable' i.d.
Hi there Frostfire !
I'm not getting involved with pic 2 (the grasshopper), or the one a little further down the page, but I think that pic 3 is a Dark Bush-cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera.
A good way to distinguish between a grasshopper and a cricket is the length of the antennae : bush-crickets have e-nor-mous-ly long ants.
Pic 3 would have been 'nicer' (no criticism intended) if it had been slightly from the side as, the DBC has a faint white line along the rear edge of the side plates of the pronotum. In your pic, I think it is just discernable. Looking at the rear end of the insect, it looks to be a male as no long ovipositor is visible.
Hope that helps, Colin.
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