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Category: Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and their allies)

Tropidischia xanthostoma (Square- legged Camel Cricket)

November 17, 2020 Dan Nelson 3 Comments

Last Saturday, based on a tip from social media, my friend Craig Sondergaard and I mounted an expedition to the…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Ensifera, Insecta, Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and their allies), Rhaphidophoridae, Species Profiles, Tropodischia Filed under: Square-legged Camel Cricket, Tropidischia xanthostoma

Melanoplus sanguinipes (Migratory Grasshopper)

September 20, 2020 Dan Nelson 2 Comments

This is a spurthroated grasshopper (Melanoplinae), so called because of a small, but readily visible when in hand, spine between…

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Posted in: Acrididae (Grasshoppers and their kin), Animals, Arthropoda, Insecta, Melanoplinae, Melanoplus, Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and their allies), Species Profiles Filed under: Melanoplus sanguinipes, Migratory Grasshopper

Phaneroptera nana (Mediterranean Katydid)

September 11, 2020 Dan Nelson 2 Comments

These are members of the family Tettigoniidae (katydids), a family which is superficially similar to grasshoppers but have much longer…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Insecta, Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and their allies), Phaneroptera, Phaneropterinae, Plants, Species Profiles, Tettigoniidae Filed under: Mediterranean Katydid, Phaneroptera nana

Dissosteira carolina (Carolina Grasshopper)

August 9, 2020 Dan Nelson Leave a comment

This is a rarity for me, an easy to identify grasshopper, due to the fact that it is the only…

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Posted in: Acrididae (Grasshoppers and their kin), Animals, Arthropoda, Dissosteira, Insecta, Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and their allies) Filed under: Carolina Grasshopper, Dissosteira carolina

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