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Melanoplus bivittatus is a relatively large species with sizes ranging from 30 to 55 mm. [3] A pair of pale yellow stripes run along the top of its body from above its eyes to the hind tip of its wings, which gives it the names two-striped grasshopper or yellow-striped grasshopper. [3]
Mermiria bivittata, known generally as two-striped mermiria, is a species of slant-faced grasshopper in the family Acrididae. Other common names include the two-striped slantface grasshopper and mermiria grasshopper .
The green-striped grasshopper is single-brooded in the North and west of the Great Plains but is multiple-brooded in the Southeast. [4] In the single-brooded range, green-striped grasshoppers' eggs are laid early in the summer season. These eggs hatch later in the same summer. The nymphs will molt three to four times before winter.
A differential grasshopper on top of someone's pants. The young grasshoppers feed on various grains, alfalfa and hay crops, while adults attack corn, cotton and deciduous fruit crops. A single swarm can destroy a crop in a few days. Because this species tends to feed in large swarms, it can be a serious threat to farming over most of its range.
A common name is spur-throat grasshoppers (also "spurthroat" or "spur-throated grasshoppers"), but this more typically refers to members of the related subfamily Catantopinae. The largest grasshoppers of this genus can reach nearly 5 cm (2.0 in) in length, but most are smaller.
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Stenobothrus lineatus [1] is usually called the stripe-winged grasshopper: [2] it is a species of grasshoppers ... Two subspecies are recorded: [1] S. l. lineatus;
Melanoplus bispinosus Scudder, 1897 (two-spined spur-throat grasshopper) Melanoplus bivittatus (Say, 1825) (two-striped grasshopper) Melanoplus bohemani (Stål, 1878) Melanoplus bonita Otte, D., 2012; Melanoplus borealis (Fieber, 1853) (northern spur-throat grasshopper) Melanoplus boulderensis Otte, D., 2012; Melanoplus bowditchi Scudder, 1878 ...