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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 » Western Sagebrush Grasshopper (Melanoplus complanatipes)
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Grasshopper with hidden blue and orange markings - Melanoplus complanatipes - female
Copyright © 2013 Charley Eiseman

Grasshopper with hidden blue and orange markings - Melanoplus complanatipes - Female
Crooked River National Grassland, Jefferson County, Oregon, USA
October 15, 2012

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Grasshopper with hidden blue and orange markings - Melanoplus complanatipes - female Grasshopper with hidden blue and orange markings - Melanoplus complanatipes - female
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 7 June, 2013 - 11:15am
Last updated 7 June, 2013 - 3:55pm

looks like a female Melanoplus complanatipes
These usually hang out on Sagebrush, but I suppose Juniper might make a good appetizer (or maybe a good place to just hang out?).

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… David J. Ferguson, 7 June, 2013 - 3:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
I didn't see it feeding on the juniper; I think it was just there to shelter from wind and rain.
… Charley Eiseman, 7 June, 2013 - 8:59pm login or register to post comments

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