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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Locusts
  6. Shorthorned Grasshoppers
  7. Bird Grasshoppers
  8. Schistocerca nitens
  9. Gray Bird Grasshopper

species 35,533 observations

Gray Bird Grasshopper

Schistocerca nitens

Status
native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

121 native plants
support it in the US
  • Food plants Plants it feeds on Cheesebush, Fragrant Pitcher Sage, Big Bursage, Coyote Brush 8
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Creosote Bush, Common Sunflower, Apricot Globemallow, Bladderpod 113

Children

  • Vagrant Grasshopper

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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