Mutant Grasshopper Found In Stockton Brook

This large insect has a huge craving for carrots – and that's not the only thing its big on!

Discovered in an olive grove in Stockton Brook, this giant grasshopper has been declared the largest ever found in England – weighing the equivalent of three mice!

The insect, with a 7in wing span, was found by insect lover Nigel Crips, 53, in Stockton Brook to see its famed canal lock.

Nigel, 53, said: "This is quite literally the largest insect ever seen in Stoke. It happily munched away on a carrot before we stamped on it, thus ending its pitiful insect life in one fell swoop."

Hopefully this little monster isn't part of a race of mutated or genetically enhanced super insects!