grasshopper – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Oklahoma Yellow Garden Spider Photos

By Mia McPherson|August 23rd, 2024|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Yellow Garden Spiders|Tags: adult, Argiope aurantia, back view, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, cattails, female, garden spider, garden spiders, grasshopper, prey, side view, spider, spiders, summer, web, Yellow Garden Spider|

Yesterday, I was happy to photograph a few Yellow Garden Spiders while taking a walk on a side road at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. You might wonder why.

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Differential And Two-striped Grasshopper Images

By Mia McPherson|July 28th, 2024|Categories: Differential Grasshoppers, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Two-striped Grasshoppers|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, breeding, Differential Grasshopper, grass, grasses, grasshopper, grasshoppers, insects, Johnson Grass, mates, mating, Melanoplus bivittatus, Melanoplus differentialis, Sorghum halepense, summer, Two-striped Grasshopper|

Let's hop right into the photos I am sharing today! I took Differential and Two-striped Grasshopper images while walking around Sequoyah NWR with Steve Creek.

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Kamas Valley Western Meadowlark With A Grasshopper

By Mia McPherson|August 21st, 2023|Categories: Birds, Kamas Valley, Summit County, Utah, Western Meadowlarks|Tags: adult, fencepost, grasshopper, meadowlark, meadowlarks, molt, pasture, ranchlands, scruffy, Sturnella neglecta, summer, valley, Western Meadowlark, wet meadow|

The first bird I photographed last week from the side of the road in the Kamas Valley was this scruffy Western Meadowlark with a grasshopper.

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Grasshopper On A Pickup At Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|July 22nd, 2023|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Wildlife|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forest, bottomlands, grasshopper, grasshoppers, Melanoplus femurrubrum, pickup, Red-legged Grasshopper, reflection, spring, Steve Creek, truck|

Today's image is a grasshopper on a pickup and its reflection. I don't have any idea what species it is but I hopped out of the pickup to take the photo.

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Eastern Phoebe In Oklahoma

By Mia McPherson|July 10th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Eastern Phoebes, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, branches, Eastern Phoebe, food, grasshopper, perched, phoebe, phoebes, prey, Sayornis phoebe, spring, tyrant flycatchers|

I have to say that I was thrilled to photograph this Eastern Phoebe with prey last month while I was visiting Arkansas and Sequoyah NWR in northeast Oklahoma.

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Request For Grasshopper Identification

By Mia McPherson|July 24th, 2022|Categories: Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildlife|Tags: bee, blooming, blooms, blossoms, canyon, close up, Common Mullein, European curculionid weevil, flowering, Genus Melanoplus, grasshopper, grasshoppers, Gymnaetron tetrum, identification, instar, introduced, mountains, mullein, mulliens, native, native bee, nonnative, North American Spur-throated Grasshoppers, nymph, Spur-throated Grasshopper, summer, Verbascum thapsus, weevil, weevils, yellow wildflowers|

I have struggled for the past four days trying to identify a bright green grasshopper nymph that I found on a Common Mullein up in the Wasatch Mountains.

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Two-striped Grasshopper Photographed on Showy Milkweed

By Mia McPherson|August 10th, 2019|Categories: Summit County, Two-striped Grasshoppers, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildflowers|Tags: Asclepias speciosa, blooming, grasshopper, grasshoppers, Melanoplus bivittatus, milkweed, milkweeds, pink wildflowers, Showy Milkweed, Two-striped Grasshopper, wildflowers|

I researched Utah's grasshoppers and found out that this is a Two-striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) and even though I may have seen this species of grasshopper before it is a photographic lifer for me.

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Prickly Poppies, Bees and a Grasshopper

By Mia McPherson|June 29th, 2017|Categories: Flatbud Prickly Poppy, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Wildflowers|Tags: Argemone munita, bee, bumble bee, bumblebee, Flatbud Prickly Poppy, grasshopper, Mexican poppy, poppies, Prickly Poppy, Thistle Poppy, white wildflowers, wildflowers, wildlife|

Each Prickly Poppy flower is about 3 to 5 inches across with yellow centers of clustered stamens and delicate petals that look like white crepe paper.

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American Kestrel Landing With A Grasshopper

By Mia McPherson|November 8th, 2016|Categories: American Kestrels, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, American Kestrel, autumn, birds of prey, Falco sparverius, falcon, falcons, fall, grasshopper, kestrel, kestrels, landing, male, marsh, prey, wetlands|

I was able take one image of the American Kestrel landing with a grasshopper in his bill that was sharp and that I liked.

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An Adult Sage Thrasher with Prey on Public Land

By Mia McPherson|January 14th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Sage Thrashers, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, barbed wire, canyon, desert, grasshopper, Oreoscoptes montanus, perched, prey, public lands, Sage Thrasher, thrasher, thrashers, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest|

This adult Sage Thrasher with prey was photographed on public lands in Tooele County in one of the canyons of the Stansbury Mountains last July.

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Swainson’s Hawk in southwestern Montana

By Mia McPherson|July 30th, 2014|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Swainson's Hawks|Tags: adult, air speed, birds of prey, Buteo swainsoni, flight, flying, grasshopper, hawk, hawks, lifting off, Monida Hill, raptors, Swainson's Hawk|

Last week while in Montana and Idaho I was able to photograph this Swainson's Hawk as it lifted off from a grassy slope heading up Monida Hill.

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Lark Sparrow behaviors and a Grasshopper

By Mia McPherson|June 14th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Lark Sparrows, Utah|Tags: adult, Artemisia tridentata, behavior, Big Sagebrush, Chondestes grammacus, desert, food, grasshopper, island, Lark Sparrow, pair, prey, sage, sagebrush, sparrow, sparrows, Speckled Rangeland Grasshopper, spring|

It was great to get back out into the field yesterday and even better that there were some cooperative Lark Sparrows in my viewfinder.

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