EC03-1569 Grasshopper Identification Guide for Cropland Grasshoppers: Summer Feeding Species

Authors

Ronald C. Seymour, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Gary L. Hein, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
John B. Campbell, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
James A. Kalisch, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2003

Comments

© 2003, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska on behalf of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension. All rights reserved.

Abstract

Summer feeding grasshoppers can cause severe damage to nearly all crops when they are abundant in field borders. Identification of the grasshoppers present is important because only four species are likely to cause significant crop damage. These four species are spur-throated grasshoppers that have a rounded head and a spur between their front legs. They are more common in weed-infested field borders and weedy adjacent pastures, but will move to cropland after consuming most of the weeds. Summer feeding grasshoppers overwinter as eggs and hatch through much of May and June.