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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 » Two-striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) » Melanoplus bivittatus femoratus
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Grasshopper nymph - Melanoplus bivittatus - female
Copyright © 2014 Lynn Murphy

Grasshopper nymph - Melanoplus bivittatus - Female
Chassell, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
August 1, 2013
This grasshopper nymph was on a Blackberry leaf in my yard. My yard is overgrown with Blackberry brambles.
Trees growing around the yard are Paper and Yellow Birch, White Spruce, White Pine, Red Maple and Poplar.
I took this photo at 2:30 p.m. The location is in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan near Lake
Superior. Would anyone know which grasshopper this is?
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Contributed by Lynn Murphy on 17 January, 2014 - 8:32pm
Last updated 18 January, 2014 - 8:05am

Moved
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… metrioptera, 18 January, 2014 - 8:05am login or register to post comments

I would say that it is a Two-striped Grasshopper
Melanoplus bivittatus. There is always a little room for doubt with nymphs of these two, but the dark markings on the hind femur barely cross the mid-line and tend to form a dark line there, which is more characteristic of a Two-striped.
… David J. Ferguson, 18 January, 2014 - 7:35am login or register to post comments

 
Grasshopper nymph
Thank you David.
… Lynn Murphy, 18 January, 2014 - 8:32am login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.
This would appear to be a Melanoplus nymph, either M. differentialis or M. bivittatus. Judging by habitat, I would guess the latter.
… metrioptera, 17 January, 2014 - 8:54pm login or register to post comments

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