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Biologist Spots Rare, Flightless Grasshopper in Virginia for the First Time in Nearly 80 Years
A petite, flightless grasshopper once thought to be extinct has been spotted in Virginia for the first time in nearly 80 years. The last time anyone officially documented the Appalachian grasshopper ...
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Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West
The devastating grasshopper has a limited geographic range in the far west of North America. Its main distribution is in the coastal states, where it inhabits semiarid rangelands dominated by forbs ...
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Flightless grasshopper, thought to be extinct, found almost 80 years later
"I was looking for it," Rapp said in a radio interview. "I locked eyes with it. And I was like, 'Oh! I think that's probably it!'" The Appalachian grasshopper lives in a very specific environment – ...