Directory of Acrididae Resources

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Family of grasshoppers.

Resources in This Category

• Biology and Behaviour of the Australian Plague Locust

  http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/insects/locusts/biology
  Information on Chortoicetes terminifera, Locusta migratoria and Austracris guttulosa, their identification and life cycle, occurrence and behavior.

• Common Field Grasshopper: Chorthippus brunneus

  http://www.arkive.org/common-field-grasshopper/chorthippus-brunneus/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including classification, status, description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Grasshoppers

  http://entoplp.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/grasshoppers.htm
  Photograph of a grasshopper, with information on its host plants and the symptoms of its presence.

• Grasshoppers of Florida

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/ghopper/ghopper.html
  Provides identification keys, ecological and biological information, photographs, maps, species descriptions, life cycles and habitat descriptions.

• How Locusts Decide it is Time to Swarm

  http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9255-how-locusts-decide-its-time-to-swarm.html
  Article from the New Scientist discussing the factors that turn a relatively harmless cloud of insects into a devastating plague.

• Locust Watch

  http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/en/info/info/
  Provides the current locust situation, monthly bulletins, technical papers, FAQ and links. Maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

• Locusts

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locusts
  Illustrated article from Wikipedia on these destructive insects which are the swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers of the family Acrididae.

• Post-oak Locust: Dendrotettix quercus

  http://www.uark.edu/ua/arthmuse/denque.html
  Photograph and information on the natural history of this species.

• Romalea microptera: Eastern Lubber Grasshopper

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/lubber.htm
  Photographs and information on this insect, its description, life cycle, habitat, defensive characteristics and management.

• Valanga irregularis: Hedge Grasshopper

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Hedge-Grasshopper/Valanga/irregularis.html
  Several photographs of nymphs and adult grasshoppers.

 

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