Proscopiidae
Jumping stick. Jatun Sacha Reserve, Napo, Ecuador.
Jatun Sacha Reserve, Napo, Ecuador
Tettigoniidae
Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Microcentrum
The face of an angle-winged katydid. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
Microcentrum rhombifolium
The intricate textures on the wing of a leaf-mimicking katydid. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
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.
Melanoplinae
A small grasshopper perches on a prickly pear. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas, USA.
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.
Myrmecophilus
A Myrmecophilus ant cricket in a nest of Crematogaster lineolata. Konza Prairie, Kansas, USA
Myrmecophilus pergandei
The eastern ant cricket, Myrmecophilus pergandei, lives in ant nests where it steals resources from their hosts. Urbana, Illinois, USA
Portrait of an eastern ant cricket. Urbana, Illinois, USA
Myrmecophilidae
This ant cricket was photographed in the nest of Camponotus nigriceps, a large Australian sugar ant. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia.
Rhaphidiphoridae
Mayagryllus apterus
Footprint cave, Cayo District, Belize
Tetrigidae
You might not notice this well-hidden pygmy grasshopper until you're right on top of it. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador
Ripipteryx
Mud crickets (Ripipterygidae) are a small, unusual family of tropical insects. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
