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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus » Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis)
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Mating grasshoppers - Melanoplus differentialis - male - female
Copyright © 2004 Rob Broekhuis

Mating grasshoppers - Melanoplus differentialis - Male Female
Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
September 3, 2004
At least I assume they're mating - if so, daddy is considerably smaller than mommy. Melanoplus differentialis seems a reasonable enough match, but I guess hopper ID is tricky.
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Contributed by Rob Broekhuis on 4 September, 2004 - 10:00pm

Differential grasshoppers
Yep, a mating pair of Melanoplus differentialis. Right now I have them here in the heart of Tucson, happily munching on an oleander hedge! Must have cast-iron stomachs. All of them seem to be the yellow phase, so I wonder if this is not warning coloration and they are sequestering whatever the toxic ompound in oleander is.
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