Note: Orthoptera is an order of insects that includes Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids, Molde Crickets, and a few others. The order used to contain Mantises, but they are now considered their own order, closely related to Cockroaches (less so, but still pretty close to termites). While Mantisies look like katydids and grasshoppers at a first glance, a closer look reveals close resemblance with the wings, face, general outline, and eggs of cockroaches
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| Differential Grasshopper |
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| Short-winged Meadow Katydid |
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| Differential Grasshopper |
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| Differential Grasshopper limb and abdomen close-up plus a mosquito or non-biting midge |
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| Dramatic Differential Grasshopper |
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| Differential Grasshopper |
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| Another Differential Grasshopper |
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| Red-shouldered Stink Bug, a new species for me!!! |
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| So beautiful! |
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| Unidentified North American Spur-throated Grasshopper |
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| Restless Bush Crickets |
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| Restless! |
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| RESTLESS!!!!!!!!!! |
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| North American Tarnished Plant Bug |
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| Large Milkweed Bugs |
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| Yeah, I don't think these Large Milkweed Bug nymphs are gonna get any sap out of that bone-dry milkweed seed pod |
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| Today was a chilly day with many insect-eating predators amok. So these Large Milkweed Bug nymphs are being smart huddling together. Can't say the same about that tiny lil' daredevil off to the side. |
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| Red-legged Grasshopper |
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| Pennsylvania Ambush Bug |
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| Twenty-spotted Lady Beetle. For scale, the Summer Azure butterfly next to it is just over a cenimeter long. That beetle is tiny |
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| Polished Lady Beetle and Oleander Aphids |
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