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Aeoloplides turnbulli
Medium-sized grasshoppers, green to grayish-brown in color, banded and striped as shown.
Degraded shortgrass prairie in mostly urban-industrial area of town.
This species is incredibly abundant this year. It is named for Russian Thistle ("tumbleweed"), which is not a thistle at all, nor native to North America, but which the insect feeds on.
Spotted on Jul 25, 2014
Submitted on Jul 29, 2014
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