grasshoppers – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

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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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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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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Adult Lark Sparrow with Prey

By Mia McPherson|July 8th, 2015|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Lark Sparrows, Utah|Tags: adult, boulder, Chondestes grammacus, desert, grasshoppers, island, Lark Sparrow, prey, sparrow, sparrows, summer|

Lark Sparrows are the easiest sparrows to identify that inhabit Antelope Island State Park with their bold facial patterns and white edged tails.

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Shorebirds of Fort De Soto – Marbled Godwits

By Mia McPherson|November 10th, 2010|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Marbled Godwits|Tags: adult, bills, blur, coast, coastal, crustaceans, feeding, flight, flying, foraging, funny pose, Godwit, godwits, graceful, grasshoppers, Great Plains, Gulf of Mexico, insects, lagoon, landing, Limosa fedoa, low tide, Marbled Godwit, mixed flocks, mollusks, mudflats, one leg, plant tubers, preening, probe, resting, shorebirds, tundra, water|

Marbled Godwits are graceful birds while on the ground, feeding and in flight.

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