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White-lined Bird Grasshopper  Schistocerca albolineata - Schistocerca albolineata - male

White-lined Bird Grasshopper Schistocerca albolineata - Schistocerca albolineata - Male
north of Benson, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
September 6, 2008
Size: 4.2 cm
In mesquites in mesquite/cactus/creosote/stony ground habitat.

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White-lined Bird Grasshopper  Schistocerca albolineata - Schistocerca albolineata - male White-lined Bird Grasshopper  Schistocerca albolineata - Schistocerca albolineata - male

Not sure.
You don't see these every year, though. Makes me think they rode the storm front stirred up by Hurricane Julio as it made landfall.

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