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Cicada Exuvia: Just a Shell Of Its Former Self

By Mia McPherson|June 29th, 2023|Categories: Arkansas, Cicadas, Sebastian County|Tags: Cicada, cicadas, driftwood, exoskeleton, exuvia, feeder, insect, insects, metamorphosis, nymph, shed outer covering, shell, summer|

Two days ago I found a Cicada exuvia or exoskeleton attached to a driftwood suet feeder. The cicada had emerged sometime during the night to begin its life anew.

Request For Grasshopper Identification

By Mia McPherson|July 24th, 2022|Categories: Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wildlife|Tags: bee, blooming, blooms, blossoms, canyon, close up, Common Mullein, European curculionid weevil, flowering, Genus Melanoplus, grasshopper, grasshoppers, Gymnaetron tetrum, identification, instar, introduced, mountains, mullein, mulliens, native, native bee, nonnative, North American Spur-throated Grasshoppers, nymph, Spur-throated Grasshopper, summer, Verbascum thapsus, weevil, weevils, yellow wildflowers|

I have struggled for the past four days trying to identify a bright green grasshopper nymph that I found on a Common Mullein up in the Wasatch Mountains.