#Acrididae

[platycryptus]

The long-headed toothpick grasshopper (Achurum carinatum) lives and feeds among tall grass in the southeast US.

They’re flightless and not very fast or agile by grasshopper standards, but like a stick insect their camouflage seems to make up for it!

In Florida, they breed year-round and are abundant in this prairie habitat in January when few other insects are active.

[ljsbugblog]

a weird horse appreciates the sunset from atop one of our cacti.

Giant Green Slantface, male(?) (Acrida conica), March '24.

[herpsandbirds]

Painted Grashopper (Dactylotum bicolor), family Acrididae, New Mexico, USA

photograph by Shawn E Thomas

[razehider]

a common palearctic species, Omocestus rufipes is a friend to grasshopper enthusiasts due to its tendency to emerge around spring and autumn rather than summer, ensuring more Grasshopper Content™ throughout the year. females like this one are slightly more fun to photograph than males due to their very pretty green streak running from the tip of their wings all the way to the head

(October 8th, 2024)

[miyrumiyru]

Round grasshopper & Edge katydid

[bowelfly]

invertober week 2

[lazchance]

grasshopper with stripes that helps it go faster (Meltripata picta)

i lied. the stripes dont make it go faster but it looks cool... i dont usually see tricoloured grasshoppers so this was a rare and cute find

this dude was in close proximity to the lichen huntsman from my previous post

see you tomorrow my dears... this is my last post for today

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

If you throw up a light and a sheet in a field, you're gonna get Orthopterans. This was one of the more interesting ones that I saw last weekend. Somehow, still just yet another Melanoplus sp.

(Thx to @eumorpha-dream for throwing up the light and the sheet)

[addicted2wasps]

WARNING. ⚠️ Mature content below. Dactylotum bicolor, mating pair. I drew this ages ago, (September 2020). I should attempt and redrawing this species with my coloured pencils. It was a fun challenging subject at the time.

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: OCTOBER 31ST, 2024 | Image IDs: Four photos of a grey spur-throated grasshopper on a thin branch /End IDs.]

[markscherz]

I found a bug

Idk why I'm sharing this with u but yk

Bug :3

congratulations. This is not a bug (Order Hemiptera), it is an orthopteran. Specifically, this is a member of Acrididae (a short-horned grasshopper), but I could not get you further than that. It is very beautiful! Congratulations on your locust friend.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Today locusts are most commonly thought of as a biblical plague, but in fact swarms of them occur almost every year in Africa, North America, Asia, and Australia. The largest swarm ever recorded occurred in Kenya in 1954; it covered 200 sq km (77 sq mi), and the population was estimated about 10 billion individuals!

(Image: A desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) by Mourad Harzallah)

If you send me proof that you’ve made a donation to UNRWA or another fund benefiting Palestinians– including esim donations and verified gofundmes– I’ll make art of any animal of your choosing.

[ljsbugblog]

fished this absolute unit out of the pond.

Giant Green Slantface (Acrida conica).

[herpsandbirds]

Hooded Grasshoppers (Teratodes monticollis), family Acrididae, found in India and Sri Lanka

photograph by Pong Wira

[razehider]

i was a little unfair to Pezotettix giornae when i posted a pink one by implying they were boring so here's a shot of one looking very pretty as a formal apology. this one is a female, as shown by the longer abdomen, so it doesn't look quite as Baby™ but that's still some high quality mottling. this species' nymphs also get points for looking nothing like you'd expect, i won't spoil the surprise for anyone who wants to look them up themselves

(October 5th, 2024)

[miyrumiyru]

Polished brown grasshopper

우리벼메뚜기 (Oxya sinuosa)