#orthoptera

[onenicebugperday]

Stick grasshoppers in the tribe Proscopiini

Found in Central and South America

Photo 1 by flecksy, 2 by hydaticus, 3 by stephenluk, 4 by kyukich, 5-6 by danman613, and 7 (for scale) by ryruther

[herpsandbirds]

Pygmy Grasshopper (Lophotettix sp.), family Tetrigidae, Amazonian Peru

photographs by Nick Volpe

[bugkeeping]

Prairie Boopie Boopedon gracile

i found more boopies

[razehider]

my good friend Pycnogaster cucullata - mouse-sized beast, maker of high-pitched hums, and lumberer extraordinaire - very clearly prefers to hang out hidden in dense, spiky bushes like gorse in my experience. this one, though, was wandering around on fennel for some reason, which is the exact opposite of a dense plant, allowing me to get a pretty good look at him

i considered handling him for better photos, and easily could have, but even small katydids are famously bitey so i didn't really feel like testing my luck against something of such hippopotamus-like proportions

(May 19th, 2025)

[strudelsaurus]

This guy’s still a baby! He has a good bit more growing to do, and he should have wings soon.

[palossssssand]

comic done for a project assignment a few years back!

[mushrooms-and-millipedes]

Freaking CONEHEAD JUST FLEW RIGHT INTO ME

Then he just wanted to sit on my arm. Okay.

[platycryptus]

The long-headed toothpick grasshopper (Achurum carinatum) lives and feeds among tall grass in the southeast US.

They’re flightless and not very fast or agile by grasshopper standards, but like a stick insect their camouflage seems to make up for it!

In Florida, they breed year-round and are abundant in this prairie habitat in January when few other insects are active.