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Unknown Grasshopper - Melanoplus sanguinipes - female

Unknown Grasshopper - Melanoplus sanguinipes - Female
Atco, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
June 13, 2011
Size: 25mm?

Moved
Moved from Grasshoppers.

a female Spur-throat Grasshopper
in the genus Melanoplus. Females in this genus can be tough to identify, but considering where you are, this one is almost certainly M. sanguinipes (the "Lesser Migratory Grasshopper"), which I've never seen migrate. :0)

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