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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus » Two-spined Spur-throat Grasshopper (Melanoplus bispinosus)
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Puccoon Prairie grasshopper - Melanoplus bispinosus - female
Copyright © 2011 Stephen_WV

Puccoon Prairie grasshopper - Melanoplus bispinosus - Female
Puccoon Prairie, Polk County, Iowa, USA
July 29, 2011
The grasshopper didn't seem to mind the heat and humidity the way I did. Get me back south of the Maxon-Dixon!

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Contributed by Stephen_WV on 7 August, 2011 - 12:57pm
Last updated 6 November, 2011 - 9:51am

I'm fairly sure this is a female Melanoplus bispinosus
Moved from Melanoplus.
… David J. Ferguson, 6 November, 2011 - 9:50am login or register to post comments

 
Late July seems very early fo
Late July seems very early for an adult M. bispinosus. Even in southern Nebraska I rarely see adults before August 25. The dorsal thorax also does not look much like M. bispinosus. I suspect more likely a female M. confusus.
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