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Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus
Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus » Pasture Grasshopper (Melanoplus confusus)

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Probably Melanoplus confusus.


Gladston Grasshopper?


It is Melanoplus glaucipes


looks like a male Melanoplus confusus


I see


I think this probably is indeed Melanoplus confusus


Looks like Melanoplus confusus


although a little more mottled looking than usual


Now I'm confusus...


Melanoplus confusus


Melanoplus confusus maybe


Melanoplus confusus


Melanoplus confusus


appears to be a male Melanoplus confusus


I keep coming back to M. confusus as the best fit


also Melanoplus confusus


oops - Melanoplus confusus


It is indeed late for A. conspersa,


Female Melanoplus confusus


Do you have photos from any other angles?


add to that -


Nymph id


I'm far from certain,


A species of Spur-throat Grasshopper - genus Melanoplus


This is a pair of "Little Pasture Grasshoppers"


female Melanoplus are difficult


minor correction


M. confusus



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