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| Northern Walkingstick (Diapheroma
femorata, Family Heteronemiidae), Little Scaly Mountain,
Macon County, NC, 8/10/05.
This large predatory insect was about 6 inches long.
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A Northern Mole Cricket: from playing
dead to returning underground
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| Northern
Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpa
hexadactyla, family Gryllotalpidae), Durham, NC, 3/14/06. When I first found it, it
looked dead but was very much alive. |
Northern Mole Cricket.
When I turned it over, it moved rapidly toward the
grass... |
Northern Mole Cricket.
Legs flying left and right, with a claw-like
forepaw lifted... |
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| Northern Mole Cricket.
At the grass, it initially got stuck on a grass blade,
but I nudged it closer to the ground. |
Northern Mole Cricket.
It quickly started to dig a hole and went down the
hole. |
Northern Mole Cricket.
Already the thorax is mostly underground. |
Bush Crickets
Bush Crickets, unlike Common Crickets, never seem to wind
up on the ground. They are typically found on leaves, furiously working
their black maxillary palps to scout the terrain.
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| Bush Cricket (Phyllopalpus pulchellus,
Trigonidiinae subfamily, Trigonidiidae family, Ensifera suborder), Eno
River State Park, Orange County, NC 8/5/06 |
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| Adult
Bush Cricket, Eno River SP, Old Cole Mill Road
access, 8/17/05. You can see the large black maxillary palps well in this
picture. Common crickets also have them, but they're white and
easily overlooked. This one is missing part of the near hind leg. |
Adult (almost, still has big white eyes)
Bush
Cricket, Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham County, NC, 8/23/05.
Note the sound-producing spines on the near leg. |
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| Bush Cricket
nymph. See the big black maxillary palps,
tasting sensory
organs, used
on a flower.
Durham, 7/31/05. |
Bush Cricket
nymph,
Indian Creek Trail, Chatham
County, NC, 8/2/05 |
Bush Cricket
nymph,
Indian Creek Trail, a
Jordan Lake Game Land, Chatham County, NC, 7/7/06 |
Other Crickets
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| Camel Cricket (Ceuthophilus genus, family
Gryllidae), Durham,
6/16/05. |
Cricket, Durham, 11/30/05. |
Cricket, Johnston Mill, Orange County, NC, 8/18/06 |
Cricket, Durham, 8/21/06 |
Short-horned Grasshoppers
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| Grasshopper (Tetrix arenosa, Tetrigidae family), I'on Swamp, Francis
Marion National Forest, Charleston County, SC, 3/29/06. A very
tiny grasshopper that comes in a variety of color patterns. |
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| Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus
differentialis), One of the bigger grasshoppers I saw in Boone, Watauga
County, NC, 8/29/05. |
Mating Differential
Grasshoppers, Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC,
9/23/07. |
Differential Grasshoppers, mating pair. Dare County, NC, 10/6/05. |
Differential Grasshopper,
Durham, NC, 9/28/06 |
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| American Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca
americana), Mason Farm Biological Reserve,
Orange County, NC, 9/21/06. One the biggest grasshoppers I've
seen. |
American Bird Grasshopper,
Falls Lake County
Park, 1/6/07. The intense red was there before image processing. |
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| Short-horned Grasshopper, Durham, 7/12/05 |
Durham, 11/4/05 |
Fort Fisher Basin Trail, New Hanover County, NC,
12/12/05. |
Nymphs
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| Short-horned grasshopper nymph, Falls Lake
SP, Wake County, NC, 3/1/06. |
Short-horned grasshopper nymph, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC,
7/9/05. |
Red-legged Grasshopper (Melanoplus ferrubrum),
nymph, Boone, Watauga County, NC, 8/7/06 |
Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus
differentialis) nymph, Durham, 8/6/06 |
Katydids/Long-horned Grasshoppers
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| Eno River SP, Old Cole Mill Road access,
8/17/05. |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC, 8/24/05 |
Katydid and Grasshopper Nymphs
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| Katydid nymph, Mason Farm Biological
Reserve, Orange County, NC, 4/29/06 |
Katydid nymph (Family Tettigoniidae), Durham, 6/26/05. This one showed up on
a butterfly bush in my front yard. |
Same nymph. |
Another katydid nymph, Asheville, NC,
7/7/05. |
This nymph is probably also a member of the
grasshopper/katydid family. |
Katydid nymph,
Durham, 7/22/05. |
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| Katydid nymph, Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC,
6/17/06 |
Katydid nymph
(antennae were truncated). This nymph was very tiny (1 or 2 mm
long). |
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