Stats

Lifespan

About 1 yr

Size

Large

Diet

Herbivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Temperate grassland

Range

North America

Movement

Hopping

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Camouflage

Status

Common

About

The Obscure Bird Grasshopper is a large, robust grasshopper with a mottled olive-brown body and a pale stripe running down its back. Despite belonging to a genus famous for swarming locusts, this species is a solitary homebody that rarely strays far from a single shrub or tree.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A small egg is laid on or near the larval food source and hatches within days or weeks.
2. 2.
   juvenile

   An immature insect feeds and molts, growing through successive instars.
3. 3.
   subadult

   A near-adult insect has wing buds or near-mature form, one molt away from full size.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown, with full wings and adult coloration.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Acrididae

Genus

Schistocerca

Species

Schistocerca obscura