Grasshoppers and Crickets

Carolina Grasshopper
Category: Grasshopper or Cricket
Carolina Grasshoppers can be found throughout the entire United States. They eat plants and grass and are good flyers dispite thier erractic-looking flight paths. As with most insect species, the female Carolina Grasshopper is larger than the male. C... READ MORE

Carolina Locust
Category: Grasshopper or Cricket
The Carolina Locust is another in the line of Short-horned Grasshoppers and can be identified by their short antenna and rough-looking exterior. Often found throughout North America, the Carolina Locust is generally regarded as the least destructive ... READ MORE

Dark Jerusalem Cricket
Category: Grasshopper or Cricket
Dark Jerusalem Crickets are a wingless species common to California. They are rather large for a cricket and have a distinctly large head. The most identifying feature of this insect is its striped abdomen featuring black and light lines. This critte... READ MORE

Field Cricket
Category: Grasshopper or Cricket
Field Crickets are a common site throughout the United States. Warm summer nights bring them out en masse as the males chirp about (up to 30 times a minute) in an effort to attract a female. Field Crickets make them homes in the ground or built-up p... READ MORE

House Cricket
Category: Grasshopper or Cricket
Crickets can appear very similarly to their related cousins - the Grasshopper - but can be discerned by the fact that common crickets only have 3 tarsal segmented body sections. Crickets are a very common nighttime sound as males produce their chirpi... READ MORE

Jerusalem Cricket
Category: Grasshopper or Cricket
This slow-moving humpbacked cricket is often taken for a spider until one counts the number of legs. They are really slow in spring during their mating season. Their hind legs have 2 rows of spines. The tracks they leave behind are unique, cr... READ MORE

Katydid
Category: Grasshopper or Cricket
Katydids get their name from the sounds they make. The repetitive calls sounded like someone saying, "Ka-ty-did". They are remarkably well-camouflaged for sitting on trees. Their body resembles a green leaf, even down to the detailed venation (v... READ MORE

Mormon Cricket
Category: Grasshopper or Cricket
In 1848, this species of katydid nearly wiped out the crops of Mormon farmers. They prefer grasses and sage brush, but can be seen at the openings of forests as well. While this species eats plant matter, sometimes it resorts to cannibalism.... READ MORE

Northern Mole Cricket
Category: Grasshopper or Cricket
Mole Crickets are a breed of cricket commonly found east of the Rocky Mountains with a broad range reaching from southern Canada into Mexico. They tend to operate during nighttime hours and spend most of their time burrowing into soil. Identifying... READ MORE

Spotted Camel Cricket
Category: Grasshopper or Cricket
The high arching 'back' of this cricket helped name it. This species is found in forests, under rocks and even in basements. They feed at night on plants and even some other insects. These Camel Crickets have the traditional large hind legs... READ MORE

Spur-throated Grasshopper
Category: Grasshopper or Cricket
Spur-throated Grasshoppers (part of the Short-horned Grasshopper family) are the most common species of grasshopper in all of North America. Noted mostly for the damage that inflict to crops in the Midwest states, the Spur-throated Grasshopper appear... READ MORE