Species Hypochlora alba - Mugwort Grasshopper

Cudweed Grasshopper

Cudweed Sage Grasshopper

Mugwort is the common name most used for herbaceous Artemisia. Cudweed is another plant entirely (Gnaphalium), and I'm not quite sure how this name got attached to this hopper. Sometimes our western "Mugwort" (A. ludoviciana) is called Cudweed Sagewort, so I suppose that's it? There's the name Wormwood too, but that's usually reserved for Artemisia species that this hopper doesn't seem to eat.

about 2.5 cm (1 inch)

The white-striped pale gray-green color (occasionally tan or pale brown) of this grasshopper, along with the short wings and small size, make it unmistakable.

Primarily the Great Plains and into Tall Grass Prairies from the base of the Rockies east as far as Iowa and from southern Canada to northern Texas and New Mexcio.

Patches of gray-leaved herbaceous Artemisia in grasslands. Often most common in low places and along roadsides where its food plant tends to thrive best.

adults summer into autumn.

Primarily Artemisia ludiviciana, sometimes other related species.

Overwinters as eggs.

While very common, it is rarely noticed.