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Tan Grasshopper Nymph - Schistocerca
Copyright © 2007 Robert L. Pearson

Tan Grasshopper Nymph - Schistocerca
Skull Valley, (WSW of Prescott 10 miles), Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
July 23, 2007
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Contributed by Robert L. Pearson on 16 February, 2008 - 10:47pm
Last updated 13 March, 2008 - 6:01pm

'Bird' Baby?
I'm guessing this could be a nymph of one of the bird grasshopper (Schistocerca) species. The link below is to a couple of pages of images of these already on this site, some of whom look awfully similar...

http://bugguide.net/node/view/336/bgimage

Also--expert help, please! Would this be a second-to-last (fourth)stage nymph we're looking at here? I usually go by the size of the wing buds compared to the size of the side of the pronotum when it's a grasshopper species I don't know...less than half and it's a fourth stage, roughly the same size and it's in its last stage (short-winged and 'wingless' species excepted, of course!). I don't know if that's really all that good a rule of thumb, though...
… Heimchen, 17 February, 2008 - 7:54am login or register to post comments

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