Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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] Occasional, localized outbreaks of this grasshopper occur, and it is often referred ...
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.
Although "grasshopper" has been used as a common name for the suborder in general, [3] [4] [5] modern sources restrict it to the more "evolved" families. [6] They may be placed in the infraorder Acrididea [ 7 ] and have been referred to as "short-horned grasshoppers" in older texts [ 8 ] to distinguish them from the also-obsolete term "long ...
Cyrtacanthacridinae Kirby, 1910 (38 genera, 170 species), Worldwide ("bird grasshoppers") Egnatiinae Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951 (30 species), Africa to central Asia; Eremogryllinae Dirsh, 1956 (5 species), North Africa Eremogryllus Krauss, 1902; Notopleura (grasshopper) Krauss, 1902; Euryphyminae Dirsh, 1956 (23 genera, 80 species), Africa ...
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.
The club-horned grasshopper is found from the grasslands of western Canada and the northern United States to the mountains of Arizona and New Mexico, [5] commonly in northern mixed-grass prairies, mountain meadows, [6]: 12 and forested foothills. [7] It is the most common and widely distributed grassland grasshopper species in the Canadian ...
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]
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.