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Differential grasshopper

Melanoplus differentialis

Description:

Adult males grow to 28–37 mm and females grow to 34–50 mm. They are brownish or greenish and as they age the color will darken. There are black grooves on the pronotum. The male has bootlike appendages at the end of its abdominal tip. There are inverted chevrons along the hind femur and the hind part the tibia is yellowish with black spikes. All of the adults tarsi are yellow along with its antennae, which in some cases are reddish yellow.

Habitat:

Found throughout northern Mexico, central United States (except theEast coast) and in southern Ontario, Canada.

Notes:

Found outside a Whataburger.

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Taylor Morgan
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Taylor Morgan

Abilene, Texas, USA

Spotted on Jul 29, 2013
Submitted on Jul 29, 2013

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