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Thistle Grasshopper

Aeoloplides turnbulli

Photo by BugEric
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Field Notes

Description:

Medium-sized grasshoppers, green to grayish-brown in color, banded and striped as shown.

Habitat:

Degraded shortgrass prairie in mostly urban-industrial area of town.

Notes:

This species is incredibly abundant this year. It is named for Russian Thistle ("tumbleweed"), which is not a thistle at all, nor native to North America, but which the insect feeds on.

Reference Links:

Russian Thistle Grasshopper (Aeoloplides turnbulli) - Information on Russian Th…, Species Aeoloplides turnbulli - Thistle Grasshopper - BugGuide.Net

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