Two-striped Grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus - BugGuide.Net

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Copyright © 2011 Matthew Priebe

Two-striped Grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus -

Loveland, Larimer County, Colorado, USA
July 17, 2011
Size: 1 inch long

This grasshopper was in the grassland foothills of the Rockies.

Contributed by Matthew Priebe on 25 November, 2011 - 9:34pm
Last updated 15 September, 2013 - 10:16am

Moved

Moved from Two-Striped Grasshopper.

… David J. Ferguson, 15 September, 2013 - 10:16am

Moved

Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.

… metrioptera, 26 November, 2011 - 1:02pm

a nearly mature male nymph of a Two-striped Grasshopper

Melanoplus bivittatus

… David J. Ferguson, 26 November, 2011 - 10:43am

Wow,

It couldn't look more different from the small bright green nymph that I sent in the other day! Thanks very much.

… Matthew Priebe, 27 November, 2011 - 1:29pm

The differences in coloring from one to the next

can indeed be amazing

… David J. Ferguson, 29 November, 2011 - 9:09am

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… John R. Maxwell, 25 November, 2011 - 11:39pm

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