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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 » Unidentified Melanoplus Nymphs (Melanoplus Unidentified Melanoplus Nymphs)
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unknown grasshopper - Melanoplus
Copyright © 2014 Wolfgang Oesterreich

unknown grasshopper - Melanoplus
Ada Hayden Heritage Park, Ames, Story County, Iowa, USA
August 16, 2014
Size: 1 inch
These two were together on the same plant. Same species?
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Contributed by Wolfgang Oesterreich on 16 August, 2014 - 7:17pm
Last updated 17 August, 2014 - 8:48am

Likely the same species
Probably both Melanoplus femurrubrum. Hard to tell for sure sometimes, especially if female or without tip of abdomen showing.
… David J. Ferguson, 25 February, 2015 - 12:43am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 17 August, 2014 - 8:46am login or register to post comments

Melanoplus
These are both Melanoplus nymphs. I can't tell you if they are the same species. Others here may be able to ID them to species.
… John Stanard, 16 August, 2014 - 10:54pm login or register to post comments

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