Melanoplus bivittatus

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.

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.