Ever since I found the invasive bush katydid Phaneroptera nana I’ve been on the lookout for these native Scudderia, but until a few weeks…
I should have been expecting to find these hump-winged crickets (family Prophalangopsidae) when I set up my lights in a wet…
I’ve been avoiding doing any field cricket posts because there are many species and they are difficult to tell apart.…
Last Saturday, based on a tip from social media, my friend Craig Sondergaard and I mounted an expedition to the…
This is a spurthroated grasshopper (Melanoplinae), so called because of a small, but readily visible when in hand, spine between…
These are members of the family Tettigoniidae (katydids), a family which is superficially similar to grasshoppers but have much longer…
This is a rarity for me, an easy to identify grasshopper, due to the fact that it is the only…