Southeastern Lubber Grasshopper

ALL PHOTOS, Insects — April 8, 2010 at 7:04 am | 4 comments |

This photograph of a Southeastern Lubber grasshopperThe grasshopper is an insect of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish it from bush crickets or katydids, it is sometimes referred to as the short-horned grasshopper. Species that change colour and behaviour at high population densities are called locusts. Grasshoppers have antennae that are generally shorter than their body and short ovipositors. They also have pinchers or mandibles that cut and tear off food. Those species that make easily heard noises usually do so by rubbing the hind femurs against the forewings or abdomen (stridulation), or by snapping the wings in flight. Tympana, if present, are on the sides of the first abdominal segment. The hind femora are typically long and strong, fitted for leaping. Generally they are winged, but hind wings are membranous while front wings (tegmina) are coriaceous and not fit for flight. Females are normally larger than males, with short ovipositors. Males have a single unpaired plate at the end of the abdomen. Females have two pairs of valves ( triangles) at the end of the abdomen used to dig in sand when egg laying. was taken in Big Cypress National Reserve along Nobel Road. The subject was shot with a Nikon D80 coupled to a Nikkor 60mm lens.

 

• Description:
•  2-2 3/4″ (50-70 mm). Short winged. Hind wings pink to red with black borders. Two different color forms: either dull straw-yellow with black markings and, in the South, a reddish stripe on fore wing; or mostly black with a yellow stripe around edges of pronotum, along back ridge, and on rear edge of abdominal segments.

Subject Photo exif Data

• Aperture - ƒ/8
• Camera - NIKON D80
• Date Created - July 18, 2009, 1:35 pm
• Focal length - 60mm
• Iso - 1600
• Shutter speed - 1/125

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Tags: Big Cypress National Reserve, Everglades, Grasshopper, Insect photography, Insects, Lubber grasshopper, macrophotography, Nature, Nature photography, Southeastern Lubber