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If you throw up a light and a sheet in a field, you're gonna get Orthopterans. This was one of the more interesting ones that I saw last weekend. Somehow, still just yet another Melanoplus sp.
(Thx to @eumorpha-dream for throwing up the light and the sheet)
Grasshopper on black-eyed Susan. From August 2006! Bet half of you weren’t even born yet LOL
Current mood.
OH HAI!
LEGGO MAH LEGGO!!!
(two-lined grasshopper, Melanoplus bivittatus; thanks to Matt Pelikan for the id!)
A big Thank You to all you BotD followers out there, we just hit #4500!
Please accept this two-lined grasshopper (Melanoplus bivattus) as a token of my appreciation.
(Thx to Matt Pelikan for the id)
Coworker and I found this ginormous grasshopper sitting in the middle of the road near one of our field sites. We surrounded it in an attempt to capture it, but it outsmarted us by hopping past me into the edge of the woods. Luckily, we found it perched on a dead oak branch, and after I carefully picked up the branch, it posed for a few photos before gleefully hopping away.
This is genus Melanoplus, possibly M. differentialis (Differential Grasshopper) but I really have no right diving into this genus so I'm probably wrong on the species id.
This is per request for akatonbo, who is currently stuck on Orthoptera now too. Tis the season! :-)
bug of the day on Flickr.
A grasshopper hiding out on one of the equipment tags during a moth blitz. I believe this is genus Melanoplus, unsure of the species though. I've submitted a photo to bugguide.net for some id assistance.
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Shhhhhh!!!! I is hiding. P.S. - This is Bug of the Day #2200!
bug of the day on Flickr.
I really thought this little fellow was going to go SPROING! at any second so I never managed to get the courage to tip him out of the vial cap for a clearer shot of his entire body. This is a very young grasshopper, Melanoplus sp., probably M. bivittatus. From the Dedham BioBlitz, July 2012.
