Broussard Acrididae

I've been trying to learn the Acridid (short-horned) grasshoppers near our home here in Broussard. Being that we are surrounded by cane & hayfields, this presents an optimum opportunity. Ellen & I spent the Sunday before last teaching ourselves a method in coastal-prairie Orthopteran capture techniques. Trial & error, folks..............

Three species were captured, photographed & re-released. Thanks to JoVonn Hill of Mississippi State University for the identification of two of these.

First image: male & female Mischievous bird grasshopper, Schistocerca damnifica (Family Cyrtacanthacridinae, migratory bird locusts)

male & female Winter brown grasshopper, Amblytropidia mysteca (Family Gomphocerinae, slant-faced grasshoppers):

Northern green-striped grasshopper, Chortophaga viridifasciata (Family Oedipoinae, band-winged grasshoppers):