This species is widespread and common, but this spring it is in a population explosion in large parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and I think Capital Reef is on the edge of that explosion. In central and nw. NM they started to mature in April, and there are millions of them flying around right now. They made the local news in Albuquerque, but otherwise haven't been getting much notice. Same thing happened in southern Nevada last year, and in sw. Arizona I think the year before. It is also becoming common in eastern Kansas, e. Oklahoma, and Arkansas, where it was rare or absent not many years ago. Seems the unusually dry recent weather must favor it, and it is one that is somewhat migratory, so it spreads around quickly. I found adults in Alpine Wyoming last week, that must have flown in from warmer points to the south or west.

Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.