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July data point for New Brunswick, home and Albert County - Chorthippus - male
Copyright © 2014 Denis A. Doucet

July data point for New Brunswick, home and Albert County - Chorthippus - Male
Riverside-Albert, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada
July 20, 2014
In our own backyard! There are thousands of individuals here, easily one of the three most common species in July and August. Numbers are starting to fall off significantly now in late August, but will surely persist into September. I cannot help but wonder what effect their abundance has on the native species, as they are truly very numerous.
Contributed by Denis A. Doucet on 30 August, 2014 - 1:37pm
Last updated 1 September, 2014 - 7:37am

Update: Male specimens found
Update: Male specimens found in 2013 (and again this year, as in this picture) by myself and Dr Don McAlpine of the New Brunswick Museum. Last fall (September 2013), Dr McAlpine recorded their vocalizations from Fundy National Park in New Brunswick (another new location) and they definitively match Chorthippus brunneus and not the other European species.
… Denis A. Doucet, 31 August, 2014 - 9:29am

you say July data point...
but there is no date on this image!
… metrioptera, 30 August, 2014 - 6:16pm

 
Indeed!
Situation will be rectified. Will also add a few more individuals from July.
… Denis A. Doucet, 31 August, 2014 - 3:57am

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