Grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids

For all your straight-winged, stridulating, and jumping needs.

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Three seemingly different types of grasshoppers have become weirdly obsessed with my rose bushes during this winter while they've lost their leaves.

[every-day-creechur]

Two-banded Grasshopper Trimerotropis bifasciata

A band-winged grasshopper found in California, United States.

image by Alice Abela

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Orthopteran spotted!

[andrenaflavipes]

Dark bush cricket nymphs on nettle.

(Pholidoptera griseoaptera, nymphs, on Urtica dioica)

10.v.2023

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Orthopterans spotted!

[blondebrainpowered]

Roman carnelian intaglio depicting a grasshopper driving a chariot being drawn by two butterflies, ca. 1st century B.C - 1st century A.D.

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Orthopteran spotted!

[midwestkingdom]

This adorable Common Meadow Katydid decided to be a wonderful subject for my photography today. He was posted up on my bird feeder hanger and held very still to get his picture taken!

An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

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Orthopteran spotted!

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オンブバッタの幼虫が青じそを食っていた（6月25日）

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[ivyskye7]

I found the most perfect little guy (lady?) and he was my PRISONER for a nice little photoshoot

According to my bug app she is probably a she. She is an adult slender meadow katydid and I'm just really into bugs ok bye

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Orthopteran spotted!

[bugkeeping]

Prairie Boopie Boopedon gracile

i found more boopies

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Orthopteran spotted!

[northerlyy]

Common True Katydid (Pterophylla camellifolia), female nymph, taken June 12, 2026, in Georgia, US

A huge katydid nymph sticking out against the white paint of a fence post like a sore...leaf? Katydids are always an exciting find, especially large ones, and this girl did not disappoint. She seems to have been just one molt from adulthood. At the top of the photo, you can see a light green sort of "tail" protruding from her abdomen which is her crazy-looking ovipositor! This species has a long, semicircle ovipositor that is very visible in females and a good identifying trait for the species. I can't imagine what possessed this individual to leave the safe haven of the trees and venture out onto a bright white fence post, but she was chilling!

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Orthopteran spotted!

[bugkeeping]

boopie….

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[razehider]

my favorite Calliptamus barbarus morph is this monochrome oreo one, which unfortunately means it's also the one that stands still the least. i'm very grateful to this individual for being oblivious enough to allow me to get a decent look at it before remembering its entire purpose in life is to jump into a dense spiky bush and disappear forever

(October 4th, 2025)

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Orthopteran spotted!

[herpsandbirds]

Some of my favorite photos taken over the past couple years of majestic and precious Plains Lubber grasshoppers. They're so cute 😭

I love them!

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[nemfrog]

Insect life around a pond. Sketches of British insects. 1877. Frontispiece.

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Poecilimon hamatus ... South of Archangelos, Rhodes, Greece - Description and photo by Henrik Gyurkovics

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

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[naturalist-journal]

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Orthopteran spotted!

[razehider]

unlike his nearby relatives who are typically impossible to track down between the jumping, cryptic appearance, and general affinity for crevices, this wood cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) was out in the open, exploring the soil exposed by a recently fallen tree much like an old man that has to snoop around every local car crash

(September 11th, 2025)

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Orthopteran spotted!