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Two-Striped Grasshopper

Melanoplus bivittatus

Photo by Dan Doucette
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

about one inch, 2 prominent white stripes with black in between

Habitat:

meadow

Notes:

I spotted this at Fireman's Park. This grasshopper let me get extremely close to it and still never jumped away. I used the flash on a few of the photos.

Species ID Suggestions

Two-striped Grasshopper

Melanoplus bivittatus

Reference Link
KeithRoragen
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Comments (1)
Dan Doucette
Thanks Keith, turns out I saw a nymph of this earlier in the summer. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6936567

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PublishedSeptember 10, 2011

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