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Red-legged Grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum
Copyright © 2009 John Pearson

Red-legged Grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum
Wickiup Hill Nature Center, Toddville, Linn County, Iowa, USA
June 11, 2009
Size: ~15 mm
On leaf in planting of native prairie species.
Contributed by John Pearson on 12 June, 2009 - 7:59pm
Last updated 14 November, 2009 - 8:29pm

Melanoplus species
likely M. femurrubrum
… David J. Ferguson, 13 June, 2009 - 1:45pm

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