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Red-legged Grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum)
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Copyright © 2008
Pam Phillips
Melanoplus bivittatus? -
Melanoplus femurrubrum
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Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 16, 2008
I took a picture of an
instar
in June. Could this be the same one grown up?
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Pam Phillips
on 18 August, 2008 - 9:17pm
Last updated 13 September, 2008 - 3:02pm
Melanoplus femurrubrum
Nope, they're not the same, different species. However, the nymph of this one would have looked similar (and smaller at any given age).
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David J. Ferguson
, 13 September, 2008 - 3:00pm
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