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Grasshoppers and Crickets

Grasshoppers and Crickets rule the summer months in North America.

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There are a total of 14 Grasshoppers and Crickets in the Insect Identification database. Entries are listed below in alphabetical order.

Camel Cricket
The Camel Cricket gets its name from the rounded shape of its back. The hump does not aid in water retention. This is n...
Carolina Grasshopper
Carolina Grasshoppers can be found throughout the entire United States. They eat plants and grass and are good flyers dispite...
Carolina Locust
The Carolina Locust is another in the line of Short-horned Grasshoppers and can be identified by their short antenna and roug...
Dark Jerusalem Cricket
Dark Jerusalem Crickets are a wingless species common to California. They are rather large for a cricket and have a distinctl...
Field Cricket
Field Crickets are a common site throughout the United States. Warm summer nights bring them out en masse as the males chirp...
Horse Lubber Grasshopper
Lubber grasshoppers boast a greater size than other grasshoppers and crickets. This species is known to have social youth tha...
House Cricket
Crickets can appear very similarly to their related cousins - the Grasshopper - but can be discerned by the fact that common ...
Jerusalem Cricket
This slow-moving humpbacked cricket is often taken for a spider until one counts the number of legs. They are really slow in ...
Katydid
Katydids get their name from the sounds they make. The repetitive calls sounded like someone saying, "Ka-ty-did". They ar...
Mormon Cricket
In 1848, this species of katydid nearly wiped out the crops of Mormon farmers. They prefer grasses and sage brush, but can b...
Northern Mole Cricket
Mole Crickets are a breed of cricket commonly found east of the Rocky Mountains with a broad range reaching from southern Can...
Southeastern Lubber Grasshopper
As a member of the Lubber Grasshopper family, this specimen is quite larger compared to more common grasshoppers and crickets...
Spotted Camel Cricket
The high arching 'back' of this cricket helped name it. This species is found in forests, under rocks and even in basements....
Spur-throated Grasshopper
Spur-throated Grasshoppers (part of the Short-horned Grasshopper family) are the most common species of grasshopper in all of...
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