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Grasshopper

Description:

Large

Habitat:

Grassy areas

Notes:

It does have black wings trimmed in yellow

1 Species ID Suggestions

Dangermouse
Dangermouse 12 years ago
Migratory locust
Locusta migratoria


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3 Comments

Dangermouse
Dangermouse 12 years ago

Take a look at migratory locust. Usually when you get a big grasshopper-type bug like this, it's a locust. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust
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AshleyHughes
AshleyHughes 12 years ago

I'm noob at this so could be either. It does have black wings trimmed in yellow though.

Dangermouse
Dangermouse 12 years ago

Is it definitely a grasshopper or a locust?

AshleyHughes
Spotted by
AshleyHughes

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Spotted on Aug 3, 2011
Submitted on Aug 3, 2011

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