It has declined severely in part of its northern range due to the disappearance of its heathland habitat and by the early 1990s the species was reduced to a single surviving colony of just 100 individuals in Coates, West Sussex
Coates Castle is a Site of Special Scientific Interest within the parish which at one time contained the entire known remaining British population of the field cricket Gryllus campestris.
Artemisia campestris | Cicindela campestris | Xanthomonas campestris | Piece of gnawed on ''Artemisia campestris | Mined leaf of ''Artemisia campestris | Gryllus campestris | Gryllus bimaculatus | Gryllus | An apical shoot of ''Artemisia campestris |