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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Cyrtacanthacridinae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Schistocerca) » Mischievous Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca damnifica)
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Mischievous or Carolina? - Schistocerca damnifica - female
Copyright © 2007 Rick Miller

Mischievous or Carolina? - Schistocerca damnifica - Female
New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, USA
October 21, 2007
I can't determine a correct ID. If it helps, it was eating a rose petal.
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Contributed by Rick Miller on 28 October, 2007 - 7:53pm
Last updated 1 October, 2008 - 1:34am

Moved
Moved from Bird Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 1 October, 2008 - 1:29am login or register to post comments

Schistocerca damnifica
it is.
… David J. Ferguson, 28 July, 2008 - 12:36pm login or register to post comments

I would say [i]Schistocerca d
I would say Schistocerca damnifica as it lacks the requisite notch in the pronotum of Dissosteira carolina. However, I'm not entirely sure that this is the Mischivious Bird Grasshopper; I am entirely sure it is not a Carolina Grasshopper. Which bird grasshopper it is could be the subject of debate - they are so difficult to tell apart. Either way, your photo is very good. Rather unique, pale, coloration, which sometimes suggests the grasshopper recently completed its final molt. If that's the case, the coloration should darken over a period of time.
… Chad Lensbower, 29 October, 2007 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

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