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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 » Yarrow's Grasshopper (Melanoplus yarrowii)
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Melanoplus? - Melanoplus yarrowii
Copyright © 2013 Cynthia Bingham Keiser

Melanoplus? - Melanoplus yarrowii
Escondido, San Diego County, California, USA
August 25, 2013
On goldenbush. Yarrow Melanoplus? No exuvia found so not sure if this is still darkening or if it's just very light.

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Contributed by Cynthia Bingham Keiser on 25 August, 2013 - 9:30pm
Last updated 30 January, 2014 - 2:02pm

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… metrioptera, 26 August, 2013 - 1:04pm login or register to post comments

correct - adult Melanoplus yarrowii
The coloring is probably fully developed. Might go darker if the weather gets cold, but that is different from color changing right after molting.

Though I can't see the end of the abdomen clearly, I'm pretty sure based on proportions that it is female.
… David J. Ferguson, 26 August, 2013 - 4:20am login or register to post comments

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