(Melanoplus)
The Spur-Throated Grasshopper is part of the family called the short-horned grasshoppers; they are the most common species of all the grasshoppers in the Pacific Northwest.
These grasshoppers can be brown in colour with additional colours of green, yellow, and orange.
These grasshoppers will lay their eggs directly into the soil, where they will remain until the following summer. The nymphs will hatch and feed through the fall, then they start the process over by laying eggs in the soil.
We have many here on the Island.
I forgot to say the photo was of a pallid throated grasshopper, which took off noisily.
This is a message i sent to my buddy Tom at Buglife Cymru in Wales UK after returning from my trip to Vancouver Island and sharing my photos – one of them after stopping on the highway to Port Hardy…..
“And how weird is this: i saw this grapphopper at a ‘gas station’ and took a photo. A guy stops his pick-up truck next to me and says: “What are looking at?” I laughed and said, “A grasshopper!” And he said: “Well, that’s interesting, because I love those critters. Me and my boys run trips for people to see wildlife on the island.” And he gave me his card for GoHiking and the screenshot is from his website.
https://gohiking.ca/animals/insects/grasshoppers/
True story! Thanks Bud!
that’s a cool story Steve, thanks for sharing.
Hello Bud,
Just discovered your page while searching for the correct name for the Grasshopper I photographed today on my hike up Mount McDonald by the Sooke reservoir.
May I ask you as an aspiring amateur photographer if you do pay for pictures contributed for your page?
I am proud of the one I took today, I would like to show you.
Thank you for helping us out!
We pretty much take all our own photos, sometimes we get an offer to use an extraordinary photo, and if we use them, we provide a byline and a link.