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Differential Grasshopper
Melanoplus differentialis
36.0526, -95.7908
Field Notes
Description:
From Wikipedia:
Adult males grow to 28–37 mm and females grow to 34–50 mm. They are brownish or greenish and as they age the color will darken. There are black grooves on the pronotum. The male has bootlike appendages at the end of its abdominal tip. There are inverted chevrons along the hind femur and the hind part the tibia is yellowish with black spikes. All of the adults tarsi are yellow along with its antennae, which in some cases are reddish yellow.
Habitat:
Found throughtout most of the United States, not on the East Coast or Northwest. Most often found in heavily weeded areas and grasslands.
Notes:
A very nice sized, brilliant yellow-green grasshopper we spotted this evening at Grandma's house.
Reference Links:
Differential grasshopper
Species ID Suggestions
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
Romalea guttata
1
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedAugust 28, 2011
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