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Melanoplus scudderi
When I took this picture, I thought I had found a nymph, but no--I learned there are grasshoppers whose adult forms just have short wings!
Found on a sunlit dead tree with the bark long gone. A wide open clearing in a mixed forest on top of a foothill. Temperature 68°f/20°c, 1397ft/426m elevation above sea level.
This species is critically imperiled in the Ontario, Canada region.
Spotted on Oct 27, 2019
Submitted on Nov 1, 2019
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