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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-striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) » Melanoplus bivittatus femoratus
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Fen Grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus - female
Copyright © 2015 Tim Turner

Fen Grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus - Female
Beavercreek, Greene County, Ohio, USA
August 22, 2015
This grasshopper had wedged itself into the gap between boards in the boardwalk through the Siebenthaler Fen, and remained in place while I stepped around it taking photos. Any idea what it may have been doing?

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Fen Grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus - female Fen Grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus - female
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Contributed by Tim Turner on 25 August, 2015 - 7:40pm

female Melanoplus bivittatus
Looks like she is ovipositing.

Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… metrioptera, 25 August, 2015 - 8:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
for the ID, metrioptera. I suspected she were ovipositing but had no confidence. Seems an oddly public place for that.
… Tim Turner, 25 August, 2015 - 9:02pm login or register to post comments

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