Insects and Spiders

It's Grasshopper Season

Fall is grasshopper season and they are everywhere, munching away. Which is also why this is the time of year that the kestrels come back to their prairie hunting grounds, they have been back for a couple of weeks now. This is one of the most common species of big yellow grasshopper.
Female Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis)

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