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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus » Two-striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) » Melanoplus bivittatus femoratus
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Grasshopper in fall - Melanoplus bivittatus - female
Copyright © 2015 Alan Jones

Grasshopper in fall - Melanoplus bivittatus - Female
Okemos, Ingham County, Michigan, USA
September 25, 2015
Size: ~1.5 inches
What kind of grasshopper is this? Does it exhibit dimorphism - like smaller in summer than in the fall? Thanks for your help
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Contributed by Alan Jones on 27 September, 2015 - 5:22pm
Last updated 27 September, 2015 - 9:35pm

Also, this is a gravid female
Her abdomen is full of eggs, which makes her considerably longer than when the eggs are gone.

Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 27 September, 2015 - 9:33pm login or register to post comments

Melanoplus bivittatus
There's only one generation annually but there are distinct size classes as they molt through the instars. There is sexual dimorphism - males are smaller than females.
… Larry de March, 27 September, 2015 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

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