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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Slant-faced Grasshoppers (Gomphocerinae) » Orphulella Group » Dichromorpha » Short-winged Green Grasshopper (Dichromorpha viridis)
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Grasshopper under UV - Dichromorpha viridis - female
Copyright © 2018 Ken Childs

Grasshopper under UV - Dichromorpha viridis - Female
Beech Bluff, Madison County, Tennessee, USA
July 28, 2018
I'm finding that a lot of grasshoppers glow brightly under UV. Feel free to frass this if you think it doesn't add anything to the guide.
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Contributed by Ken Childs on 29 July, 2018 - 1:24pm
Last updated 31 July, 2018 - 12:59pm

Moved
Very interesting! I'll have to try this out myself

Moved from Grasshoppers.
… metrioptera, 31 July, 2018 - 12:59pm login or register to post comments

 
I expect it with the species
I expect it with the species that are yellow or light green but these brown ones surprised me, at least at first. This time of year I'm usually busy during the day so my insect hunting is mostly done at night. Just about everything I've posted recently was spotted with the UV flashlight or was at my moth lights.
… Ken Childs, 31 July, 2018 - 7:50pm login or register to post comments

We like it!
Makes us wish we had better UV vision
… john and jane balaban, 29 July, 2018 - 2:10pm login or register to post comments

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