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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 » Devastating Grasshopper (Melanoplus devastator)
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ID for a grasshopper? - Melanoplus devastator - female
Copyright © 2012 nvhamlett@gmail.com

ID for a grasshopper? - Melanoplus devastator - Female
Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
December 8, 2012
Size: Approx. 1 in
This small grasshopper was spotted in a non-native grassland at the Claremont Colleges' Robert J. Bernard Biological Field Station. Any chance of identifying it at least to genus? Any information will be greatly appreciated!
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Contributed by nvhamlett@gmail.com on 8 December, 2012 - 8:16pm
Last updated 13 January, 2013 - 5:28pm

female Melanoplus devastator
Moved from Short-horned Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 13 January, 2013 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks for the ID! M. devastator was the first grasshopper species identified at the field station, but we didn't have any photos until now. I hadn't realized they were so small -- with a name like that, I somehow assumed they were one of those big grasshopper.
… nvhamlett@gmail.com, 13 January, 2013 - 8:56pm login or register to post comments

 
I'm not sure they really live up to their name either.
I've never thought of them as "devastating", but I suppose if you got enough of them they might be - for a time.
… David J. Ferguson, 17 January, 2013 - 12:21pm login or register to post comments

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