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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Pygmy Mole 'Crickets' (Tridactylidae)
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Grasshopper Nymph
Copyright © 2007 Matt B.

Grasshopper Nymph
Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee, USA
March 27, 2007
Size: ~4.5mm long, ~2mm tall
I was walking outside looking for interesting bugs in a semi-dry riverbed and I was serenaded with the distinctive "snap, crackle, pop" of 100s of grasshopper nymphs. I was finally fortunate enough to find one that wasn't quite as hypervigilant as the rest, and used my index finger to demonstrate how truly small these creatures were.

Photo taken with the Canon Powershot S2 IS.
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Contributed by Matt B. on 31 March, 2007 - 3:42pm
Last updated 1 April, 2007 - 7:06pm

Maybe not nymph
Looks like it may be a Pygmy Mole Cricket in the family Tridactylidae, which is in the same suborder as grasshoppers, not crickets. See guide page here.
… Stephen Schueman, 31 March, 2007 - 11:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Interesting. I wonder why th
Interesting. I wonder why they're not sub-divided... I do have another picture of a larger pygmy mole cricket whose markings match that of the others shown on here, but few seem to match this one.
… Matt B., 1 April, 2007 - 12:34am login or register to post comments

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