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Green Bird Grasshopper - Schistocerca shoshone
Copyright © 2007 margarethe brummermann

Green Bird Grasshopper - Schistocerca shoshone
Watson Creek Preserve, Prescott, yavapai County, Arizona, USA
September 3, 2007
Size: 8cm
At the same location as these quite magnificent green guys I also saw other large bird grasshoppers with dark, light-lined hindwings that were flying, prob. Dissosteira carolina. I did not succeed in capturing those on camera.

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Green Bird Grasshopper - Schistocerca shoshone Green Bird Grasshopper - Schistocerca shoshone
Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 5 September, 2007 - 2:52am

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