View allAll Photos Tagged grasshopper
03/15/2015 Catalina State Park, Pima Co., AZ. Possibly an early stage of the Horse Lubber Grasshopper (???)
A green grasshopper, © Nida van Leersum.
If you would like to use this image, please credit the creator as follows:
'Grasshopper' by Nida van Leersum is released under CC BY-NC-SA
and link to both this location and the relevant license.
Ammodramus sacannarum
State Listed as Endangered in Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut; Threatened in Vermont, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts
The grasshopper sparrow can be found in grasslands throughout most of the United States. They are a small brown bird with a white underbelly, and when they sing it sounds like a high buzz, somewhat like the sounds a grasshopper makes. During breeding season, males create a territory and dance around on top of plants or fence posts so females can easily see them. Once they have found a mate, both birds build a domed nest and the female lays 3-6 eggs inside. After the eggs hatch, both male and female feed the chicks until the chicks leave the nest and nesting territory. The sparrows forage for food on the ground and their diet consists of insects and a variety of seeds.
In Maine, there are four remaining breeding sites. The nesting regions have been lost due to airports, military bases, agricultural farmands, blueberry cultivation and other human development sites. Grasslands in the Kennebunk plains have been set aside by the Land for Maines Future Board and the Nature Conservancy has purchase the three other breeding sites for the Grasshopper Sparrow and are now protected lands.
In Connecticut the grasshopper sparrow was an abundant nester, however since the 1930s, populations have steadily declined as dry, grassy uplands and farms have reverted to forests or have been replaced by developments. As with other ground-nesting birds, high populations of predators like raccoons, skunks and feral or most free-roaming housecats have also contributed to this species' decline. Threats from outdoor domestic cats are no joke and are a recognized threat to global biodiversity. Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild. The ecological dangers are so critical that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists domestic cats as one of the world’s worst non-native invasive species. In the United States alone, outdoor cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year.
The Endangered Species Project: New England
Exhibition Dates: February 4 - April 14, 2019
Public Lecture and Closing Reception with the Artist: Saturday, April 13
Gallery Hours: M-F 10am - 8pm; Weekends 10am-5pm
Gallery 224 at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
224 Western Ave, Allston, Massachusetts 02134
Gallery 224 at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard is pleased to present an exhibition of work from Montana-based potter Julia Galloway's most recent body of work, The Endangered Species Project: New England. Galloway works from each state's official list of species identified as endangered, threatened or extinct. She has created a series of covered jars, one urn for each species, illustrating the smallest Agassiz Clam Shrimp to the largest Eastern Elk.
Read more about this exhibition here:
ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics/gallery224/endangered-specie...
A grasshopper on an eremophila bush in my garden today. Body about 1 cm long, long legs and feelers. Zosterops tells me it's a Katydid (see comments and tags).
When I took this, we didn't realize there were two there. It just looked like one big grasshopper. Even though the focus is off, I couldn't resist uploading it.