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Yep you can see she’s guarding her egg sac (big white ball beneath her).
Also anybody any good at IDing bush crickets? Girlfriend’s family found this lady cricket in Vienna. Most likely Eupholidoptera but not able to id species.
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jupiz
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Cream line on lowest edge of thorax protector (?) Suggests something like Roesel's Bush cricket:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roesel's_bush-cricket -
Fierce ovipositor.
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What a beauty!
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I really don't know much at all about Crickets and you're right that there are quite a few similar European species but I think it might be Eupholidoptera schmidti AKA Schmidt's Marbled Bush-Cricket - see for example https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/509455-Eupholidoptera-schmidti
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Not the best picture from my phone but I assume this is some sort of spider nest or something