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Scudder's Short-winged Grasshopper
Melanoplus scudderi
36.4086, -93.7259
Field Notes
Description:
When I took this picture, I thought I had found a nymph, but no--I learned there are grasshoppers whose adult forms just have short wings!
Habitat:
Found on a sunlit dead tree with the bark long gone. A wide open clearing in a mixed forest on top of a foothill. Temperature 68°f/20°c, 1397ft/426m elevation above sea level.
Notes:
This species is critically imperiled in the Ontario, Canada region.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedNovember 1, 2019
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