Proscopiidae
Jumping stick. Jatun Sacha Reserve, Napo, Ecuador.
Jatun Sacha Reserve, Napo, Ecuador
Tettigoniidae
Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Scudderia furcata
An immature female fork-tailed bush katydid. Austin, Texas, USA.
Rainforest katydid, Peru.
Anabrus simplex
The Mormon Cricket is a shield-backed katydid from western North America that is prone to outbreaks. Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA.
Katydid nymph
Brazil.
Tropidacris
The head of a giant lubber grasshopper. Cayó District, Belize.
Acrididae
Short-horned grasshopper photographed along a roadside in Amazonian Ecuador.
Short-horned grasshopper
Cayó District, Belize.
Melanoplus sp.
A late fall grasshopper feeds from atop a flower head. Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Melanoplus differentialis
Rumley, Texas, USA.
A differential grasshopper. Rumley, Texas, USA.
Aidemona azteca
Young Aztec Spur-throat grasshoppers are strikingly colored, but their brilliant juvenile colors give way to a drab, camouflaged adult. Austin, Texas, USA.
Austin, Texas, USA.
Neonemobius
A collared ground cricket. Austin, Texas, USA.
A female collared ground cricket. Austin, Texas, USA.
Gryllidae
Although the ancestral cricket had fully developed wings, not all modern species retain them. This photo shows a wingless adult female field cricket from the Ecuadorian cloud forest. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
