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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) » Gray Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca nitens)
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Is it a bird, a plane, a locust or a grasshopper? - Schistocerca nitens - female
Copyright © 2009 Racquel Morris

Is it a bird, a plane, a locust or a grasshopper? - Schistocerca nitens - Female
Tularosa, Otero County, New Mexico, USA
November 16, 2009
Size: BIG
I have about 17 pictures of this baby so if you need a different shot let me know. My kids saw it on the window and I got out of the sick bed to get it. Thank goodness I live in the country and the nearest neighbor is nowhere to be seen! Now I am going back to bed. Thanks for the help with the id, I think this is the biggest hopper I have seen yet! I thought the plains lumber was a big one, wow!
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Contributed by Racquel Morris on 16 November, 2009 - 3:11pm
Last updated 17 November, 2009 - 12:08pm

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Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 17 November, 2009 - 12:08pm login or register to post comments

looks like Gray Bird Grasshopper - Schistocerca nitens
Close on a few names there, bird, locust.. this genus is the same one that swarms in Africa.
… Andrew Williams, 16 November, 2009 - 3:29pm login or register to post comments

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