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Huge Hopper! - Schistocerca nitens
Copyright © 2007 Candy Cox

Huge Hopper! - Schistocerca nitens
El Mirage, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
June 19, 2007
Size: 3 1/2 inches
Found on my tomato plant.

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Contributed by Candy Cox on 19 June, 2007 - 11:49am
Last updated 19 June, 2007 - 2:52pm

Gray bird grasshopper.
This is an extraordinarily pale specimen of the gray bird grasshopper, Schistocerca nitens. They can be very abundant in parts of Arizona and the southwest in general, but not in such huge "plagues" that they do any great damage.
… Eric R. Eaton, 19 June, 2007 - 1:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Eric
I could not get over the size. It never ate anything in my yard, but finally left after "hanging out" since yesterday.
… Candy Cox, 19 June, 2007 - 2:33pm login or register to post comments

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