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Grasshopper babies - Schistocerca
Copyright © 2004 Hannah Nendick-Mason

Grasshopper babies - Schistocerca
Gainesville, Florida, USA
May 11, 2004
Size: each about 6-8 mm
I was very surprised to come across this large gathering of what I think are juvenile grasshoppers. They were all on a Coreopsis flower about one and a half inches wide. Half an hour later I went back to check and they had dispersed. Newly hatched perhaps?
Do juvenile grasshoppers resemble the adults they will become in coloring and features?
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Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 12 May, 2004 - 1:59pm
Last updated 1 October, 2008 - 12:01am

Schistocerca
After staring at these for some time, and now that I have looked at the full-sized image, I see that Eric was correct, they are Bird Grasshopper nymphs, newly hatched. I should have registered the relatively large size too - surely way too big for Aptenopedes that young.

Moved from Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 1 October, 2008 - 12:01am login or register to post comments

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… David J. Ferguson, 10 August, 2008 - 12:45am login or register to post comments

Grasshoppers
I am certain those are grasshopper babies. That's an interesting shot with them all grouped together. There must have been eggs close by.
… Troy Bartlett, 12 May, 2004 - 10:24pm login or register to post comments

 
yes, and
I should add these were on a nursery plant in a pot on a bench. I think probably the eggs were laid in the potting soil, so the hatchlings had to go up to get out.

Hannah N-M
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 14 May, 2004 - 8:24pm login or register to post comments

 
I had some on a cactus in a p
I had some on a cactus in a pot last spring. They clustered together the same way when they first came out but they were brown.
… Darcy Ashton, 2 February, 2008 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

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