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Had to stretch my legs on the drive down to Junction for the Texas Academy of Sciences meeting -- what better place than a little park? Coleman City Park is a pretty nice one! :)
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Elizabeth and I went to Kaufman City Lake in Kaufman, and wow -- this place was loaded with snakes! We must have seen at least 20. In other words, it was a great park! :) Spotted lots of other cool things too.
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Elizabeth and I went to Kaufman City Lake in Kaufman, and wow -- this place was loaded with snakes! We must have seen at least 20. In other words, it was a great park! :) Spotted lots of other cool things too.
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After work, I stopped by Thora Hart Park in Arlington, Texas -- this place has some really unique plants! The soil is deep sand -- looking forward to going out here more this upcoming spring.
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After work, I stopped by Thora Hart Park in Arlington, Texas -- this place has some really unique plants! The soil is deep sand -- looking forward to going out here more this upcoming spring.
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Decided to drive a little bit east of the DFW metroplex today. Amazing how just an hour drive east leads you to a completely different ecosystem! :)
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Decided to drive a little bit east of the DFW metroplex today. Amazing how just an hour drive east leads you to a completely different ecosystem! :)
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Male about 3 cm length hiding in the grass.
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Male about 3 cm length hiding in the grass.
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Female about 3 cm length hiding in the grass, not far from a male.
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"Northern Green-striped Grasshopper (Chortophaga viridifasciata viridifasciata) - female Note: This observation was identified as a Northern Green-striped Grasshopper on BugGuide by our colleague currently based in the Texas Hill Country and formerly of California that posts on BugGuide under the psuedonym, nature4me. Many thanks. And for confirming the ID we thank Brandon Woo, Contributing Editor, at BugGuide, which is located at the Department of Entomology, Iowa State University. To access the ID at Bugguide go to: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1205514 According to the BugGuide range map, Northern Green-striped Grasshopper is found throughout Texas especially North, Central and Gulf Coastal Texas, and it occurs throughout the year. Northern Green-striped Grasshopper is widely occurring throughout the continental United States and Canada. The exception to this are the westernmost states and provinces of these two North American nations. Presumably Northern Green-striped Grasshopper does not stop at the US-Mexico border, and therefore it is a species certainly that's widely occurring in Northern Mexico though how far its range extends is open to question as the BugGuide data is US- and Canada-centric and thereby mostly excludes reports issuing from Mexico, which of course is nonetheless very much a part of North America. And so it goes. The specimen in our observation is the female of the species and subspecies. To be sure, Northern Green-striped Grasshopper is brightly colored in its green form. Northern Green-striped Grasshopper is an authentic resident of North America and the Western Hemisphere. Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center (CCNHC) is administered by the City of Denton, Texas. Source: ""Subspecies Chortophaga viridifasciata viridifasciata - Northern Green-striped Grasshopper,"" BugGuide, Iowa State University, Department of Entomology, photographs, range map, description, resources, accessed 4.1.16, http://bugguide.net/node/view/666534"
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"Northern Green-striped Grasshopper (Chortophaga viridifasciata viridifasciata) - female Note: This observation was identified as a Northern Green-striped Grasshopper on BugGuide by our colleague currently based in the Texas Hill Country and formerly of California that posts on BugGuide under the psuedonym, nature4me. Many thanks. And for confirming the ID we thank Brandon Woo, Contributing Editor, at BugGuide, which is located at the Department of Entomology, Iowa State University. To access the ID at Bugguide go to: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1205514 According to the BugGuide range map, Northern Green-striped Grasshopper is found throughout Texas especially North, Central and Gulf Coastal Texas, and it occurs throughout the year. Northern Green-striped Grasshopper is widely occurring throughout the continental United States and Canada. The exception to this are the westernmost states and provinces of these two North American nations. Presumably Northern Green-striped Grasshopper does not stop at the US-Mexico border, and therefore it is a species certainly that's widely occurring in Northern Mexico though how far its range extends is open to question as the BugGuide data is US- and Canada-centric and thereby mostly excludes reports issuing from Mexico, which of course is nonetheless very much a part of North America. And so it goes. The specimen in our observation is the female of the species and subspecies. To be sure, Northern Green-striped Grasshopper is brightly colored in its green form. Northern Green-striped Grasshopper is an authentic resident of North America and the Western Hemisphere. Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center (CCNHC) is administered by the City of Denton, Texas. Source: ""Subspecies Chortophaga viridifasciata viridifasciata - Northern Green-striped Grasshopper,"" BugGuide, Iowa State University, Department of Entomology, photographs, range map, description, resources, accessed 4.1.16, http://bugguide.net/node/view/666534"
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Green form. I saw about a half dozen of these and at least eight of the brown form.