Two-striped Grasshopper
Melanoplus bivittatus
Insecta
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- A few months
- 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 Two-striped Grasshopper is named for the pair of pale yellow stripes running from head to wingtip along each side; it is one of North America's most economically damaging grasshopper species, capable of stripping crops and pastures bare during outbreak years.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small egg is laid on or near the larval food source and hatches within days or weeks.
- 2.juvenileAn immature insect feeds and molts, growing through successive instars.
- 3.subadultA near-adult insect has wing buds or near-mature form, one molt away from full size.
- 4.adultFully grown, with full wings and adult coloration.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Acrididae
- Genus
- Melanoplus
- Species
- Melanoplus bivittatus