The Prairie Ecologist

Essays, photos, and discussion about prairie ecology, restoration, and management

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Published January 9, 2018 at 776 × 955 in The Diversity, Beauty, and Secret Lives of Grasshoppers

The cudweed grasshopper (Hypochlora alba) is named for its favorite food plant – Cudweed sagewort (Ambrosia ludoviciana), on which it is supremely well camouflaged.

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