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Suggested citation

Brust, Mathew, Jim Thurman, Chris Reuter, Lonnie Black, Robert Quartarone, Amanda J. Redford. 2020. Grasshoppers of the Western U.S., Edition 4.1. USDA APHIS Identification Technology Program (ITP). Fort Collins, CO. [date of access] https://idtools.org/id/grasshoppers/

Home page images

From left to right:

Differential grasshopper, Melanoplus differentialis; photo by David Riley, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org
Admirable grasshopper, Syrbula admirabilis; photo from Kansas Department of Agriculture Archive, Bugwood.org.
Plains lubber grasshopper, Brachystola magna; photo by Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org

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