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The Carolina Locust [6] is a short-horned grasshopper (Family Acrididae) found in most of the United States and other parts of North America [7] (Fig 1). These grasshoppers can be anywhere between 32 and 58 mm, with females being larger than males. [8] Their color can range from grey to brown with contrasting black and yellow-white hind wings.
Caelifera are divided into two infraorders: the more basal Tridactylidea and the Acrididea or grasshopper-like species. This latter name is derived from older sources, such as Imms , [ 5 ] which placed the "short-horned grasshoppers" and locusts at the family level ( Acrididae ).
Global distillation or the Grasshopper effect is the geochemical process by which certain chemicals, most notably persistent organic pollutants (POPs), are vaporized and transported from warmer to colder regions of the Earth, particularly the poles and mountain tops, where they condense.
The common grasshopper warbler is now one of 20 species placed in the genus Locustella that was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1829 with the common grasshopper warbler as the type species. [8] [9] The genus name Locustella is from Latin and is a diminutive of locusta, "grasshopper".
Madeline Landecker was walking to her family barn in Benton, Arkansas, on Thursday when the 9-year-old aspiring veterinarian spotted a rare find — the elusive pink grasshopper.
Schistocerca nitens is a species of grasshopper known by several names, including vagrant grasshopper and gray bird grasshopper. It is a close relative of the desert locust, which is in the same genus. This grasshopper is native to southern North America including Mexico and the south-western United States from California to Texas. Vagrants are ...
Tropidacris is a Neotropical genus of grasshopper in the family Romaleidae. [3] [4] [5] They are among the largest grasshoppers in the world by length and wingspan, reaching up to 14.5 cm (5.7 in) and 24 cm (9.4 in) respectively.