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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » True Crickets (Gryllidae) » Tree Crickets (Oecanthinae) » Common Tree Crickets (Oecanthus) » Nigricornis Group (Oecanthus Nigricornis Group) » Forbes' Tree Cricket (Oecanthus forbesi)
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Oecanthinae nymph - less than 8 hours of age - Oecanthus forbesi
Copyright © 2008 Wisconsin Oecanthinancy

Oecanthinae nymph - less than 8 hours of age - Oecanthus forbesi
Kansasville, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, USA
June 18, 2008
Size: 2-3mm w/o antennae & legs
The nymphs are very active, very wary and very fast -- even jump. Visualized preening antennae at 24 hours of age. 1 cm from tip of antennae to tip of outstretched back legs. Hoping to sustain this nymph to adulthood in order to get a definite ID of species.

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LIFE CYCLE SERIES - Goldenrod stem with oviposited egg markings of Black-horned Tree Cricket - Oecanthus forbesi Oecanthinae nymph - less than 8 hours of age - Oecanthus forbesi Oecanthinae nymph - less than 24 hours of age - Oecanthus forbesi Antennal markings of young Forbes' Tree Cricket - Oecanthus forbesi LIFE CYCLE - Instar approx 54 days old - Oecanthus forbesi - female LIFE CYCLE - Adult female Forbes' Tree Cricket - Oecanthus forbesi - female
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Contributed by Wisconsin Oecanthinancy on 18 June, 2008 - 8:58pm
Last updated 7 December, 2018 - 10:20pm

Moved
Moved from Black-horned Tree Cricket.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 17 December, 2013 - 10:31pm login or register to post comments

How cute!!!
And I did not know they lay their eggs in twigs.

Very cool, thanks for sharing these photos
… Vespula Vulgaris, 10 January, 2009 - 6:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tree Crickets.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 11 October, 2008 - 9:18pm login or register to post comments

 
This photo is being used on the Oecanthinae Info page.
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… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 7 November, 2008 - 11:10pm login or register to post comments

Awesome.
Fantastic image; and I have to compliment you on your painstaking observations of these. We are learning very much from your work, thank you.
… Eric R. Eaton, 19 June, 2008 - 3:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Eric
A compliment from you is highly regarded. I'm trying to document on a daily basis. I've yet to witness one emerging...but there are still quite a few 'plugs' on the goldenrod. The most prolific has now had 14 nymphs emerge.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 19 June, 2008 - 9:24pm login or register to post comments

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