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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 » Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis)
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ID Please - Melanoplus differentialis - female
Copyright © 2007 dangit

ID Please - Melanoplus differentialis - Female
Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA
September 10, 2007
Size: 2-2 1/2"

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ID Please - Melanoplus differentialis - female ID Please - Melanoplus differentialis - female
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Contributed by dangit on 12 September, 2007 - 9:25pm
Last updated 27 November, 2009 - 2:02pm

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Moved from Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets.
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 October, 2007 - 4:08pm login or register to post comments

Great shot!
Great shot!
Steve
… Steven Price, 21 September, 2007 - 2:47pm login or register to post comments

Melanoplus differentialis
Hi, The 'Differential Grasshopper' is a common widespread species (coast to coast) that can be very destructive in yards and gardens at times. I was reading something interesting about it in a book just yesterday; stating that it wasn't found south of Virginia east of the Appalachians, but that was written in 1920, and not long before that it was supposedly absent from everything east of the. It really likes old fields, leafy crops, weedy roadsides and such, so it does quite well with the activities of us humans.
… David J. Ferguson, 13 September, 2007 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

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