Grasshopper and Cricket Photography by Kozmic Dreams

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Grasshoppers and Crickets

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Grasshoppers

Carolina Grasshopper, Dissosteira carolina

Highland Oaks County Park, May 16, 2020

I think this is a baby, but I'm not certain. It was only about 3/8" long. I didn't have my macro lens, so it was difficult to get a decent photo.

Highland State Park, August 31, 2019

This particular grasshopper had a rust-brown color.

Island Lake State Park, October 8, 2017

This particular grasshopper had an orangeish color.

Maybury State Park, August 18, 2017

Unidentified Grasshopper Type 1

Raymond Goodrich Preserve, August 17, 2019

This pair of mating grasshoppers were photographed on my parents' bougainvillia on August 22, 2016.

I found this huge grasshopper (about 2 1/2 inches long) on September 6, 2008 on the butterfly bushes. It really seems to enjoy eating them. I did some indoor photos with it set up on a butterfly bush branch. After releasing it, I was also able to get a few photos through the den window in a natural setting. I haven't yet researched what species this is.

Crickets

Handsome Trig or Redheaded Bush Cricket, Phyllopalpus pulchellus

September 10, 2022

This cricket was hanging out on one of my swamp milkweed plants. Like the one I photographed in 2018, it was moving around a lot which made it difficult to get clear photos. A few photos are crops of the previous photo so that one could see how long this cricket's antenna were. The wings on this cricket look have more swirls and depressions, whereas the one from 2018 had very straight, striated wings.

September 16, 2018.

This cricket was in the pine bark nuggets I disturbed while removing some English ivy. It was only about 1/2 inch long. It was very fast and wouldn't stay in any place for long. It is photographed on the outside of a ceramic pot, fern leaves, soil at the bottom of the pot, and my camera lens that was setting on the table (in other words, anywhere I could take a photo of it while it briefly paused).

Unknown Cricket

October 12, 2015. I found this unusual cricket in the backyard. It is photographed on my ice plant. It had extremely long antennae.

Unknown Cricket

July 6, 2014, Oakwoods Metropark.

Unknown Cricket

I believe this is a type of cricket (and not a katydid), but I am not positive. It was found on September 2, 2013 in Metamora, MI.

Snowy Tree Cricket, Oecanthus fultoni

Unlike most crickets that live on the ground, the snowy tree cricket is usually in bushes or trees. They are sometimes referred to as the "thermometer cricket" because one can calculate the temperature by the number of chirps. The formula depends on whether you live in the eastern or western United States because they chirp faster in the west. I photographed this one on July 30, 2008. It is a juvenile and does not yet have its full wings.

Field Crickets, Gryllus campestris

I have always loved this species of cricket and have never had the heart to ever feed one to any of my carnivorous friends. They are very friendly crickets and seem to like to be held. It is sometimes difficult to get them off of your hand because they just want to hold on. No wonder the Chinese built special cricket boxes to keep them in as pets. In contrast, the house cricket pictured under this species will not let you hold them for a second. They frantically try to escape and seem to be much better at it than they were 15 years ago. I strongly believe that they are being bred to escape better since they are the feeder crickets that are sold in pet shops. If you think about it, the ones that are best at escaping the hands of their caretakers are the ones left behind to breed, so we are selectively breeding more intelligent crickets over time.

Here is a male field cricket photographed on 9-9-07. He was found singing in my basement.

Here is a female field cricket photographed on 9-9-07. She was found in my basement, probably attracted by the song of the above cricket.

House Cricket, Acheta domesticus

Here is a molting house cricket (the kind sold in pet stores for animal food) photographed on June 24, 2008. How strange that I would have photographed my last molting house cricket exactly one year ago to the day!

Here is a house cricket that is molting its exoskeleton. I was in the process of photographing a jumping spider when I noticed the molting cricket in the bottom of the glass that the spider was in, so I decided to take a few pictures on June 24, 2007.

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