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Schistocerca americana is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae known commonly as the American grasshopper [3] and American bird grasshopper. [4] It is native to North America, where it occurs in the eastern United States , Mexico , and the Bahamas . [ 3 ]
Grasshoppers eat large quantities of foliage both as adults and during their development, and can be serious pests of arid land and prairies. Pasture, grain, forage, vegetable and other crops can be affected. Grasshoppers often bask in the sun, and thrive in warm sunny conditions, so drought stimulates an increase in grasshopper populations.
Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera.The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae.
Schistocerca [1] is a genus of grasshoppers, commonly called bird grasshoppers, many of which swarm as locusts. The best known species is probably the desert locust ( S. gregaria ) and trans-Atlantic flight may explain the biogeography of some locust species.
Chloealtis gracilis, the graceful slant-face grasshopper, ... The North American Grasshoppers, Volume I, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae and Acridinae. Harvard.
In the 1930s, during the Dust Bowl, a second species of North American locust, the High Plains locust (Dissosteira longipennis), reached plague proportions in the American Midwest. Today, the High Plains locust is a rare species, leaving North America with no regularly swarming locusts. [32] [33]
Acrolophitus is a genus of North American grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. Species include: [1] Acrolophitus hirtipes; Acrolophitus maculipennis; Acrolophitus ...
Trimerotropis verruculata, known generally as the crackling forest grasshopper or cracker grasshopper, is a species of band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in North America. It is found in North America.