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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Cyrtacanthacridinae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Schistocerca)
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Exoskeleton remains of a grasshopper on a spider web - Schistocerca
Copyright © 2007 Alan Chin Lee

Exoskeleton remains of a grasshopper on a spider web - Schistocerca
Homestead, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
October 7, 2007
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Contributed by Alan Chin Lee on 10 October, 2007 - 4:44pm
Last updated 10 August, 2008 - 1:05am

Moved
Moved from Short-horned Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 10 August, 2008 - 1:05am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… Eric R. Eaton, 13 February, 2008 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

A shed skin
Hi, This is the shed skin of a grasshopper nymph. It might be an interesting story to learn how it ended up in a spider web, but apparently the grasshopper escaped. It looks suspiciously like a species of Schistocerca.
… David J. Ferguson, 31 January, 2008 - 4:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Hey David ...
Thanks for the info. Yes, It would be interesting to know how the exuvia got there!
… Alan Chin Lee, 2 February, 2008 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

 
:-)
Pretty extreme method of escape, eh? LOL! Probably blown by the wind, but that is such a boring explanation:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 13 February, 2008 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

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