ONH Insects - Clear-winged Grasshopper

Clear-winged Grasshopper

Camnula pellucida

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1 - Clear-winged Grasshopper, Camnula pellucida male.
09/08/2022 Upper Wolf Creek Trail, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington
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2 - Clear-winged Grasshopper male.
09/08/2022 Upper Wolf Creek Trail, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington
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3 - Clear-winged Grasshopper, male, dorsal view.
09/08/2022 Upper Wolf Creek Trail, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington
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4 - Clear-winged Grasshopper.
09/08/2022 Upper Wolf Creek Trail, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington
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5 - Clear-winged Grasshopper male.
09/08/2022 Upper Wolf Creek Trail, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington
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6 - Clear-winged Grasshopper mating pair.
09/08/2022 Upper Wolf Creek Trail, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington
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7 - Clear-winged Grasshopper mating pair, close up of the abdomen tips. The male’s abdomen is curled under the female’s.
09/08/2022 Upper Wolf Creek Trail, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington
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8 - Clear-winged Grasshoppers appear to be investigating a mating group of four Crackling Forest Grasshoppers, Trimerotropis verruculata
09/08/2022 Upper Wolf Creek Trail, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington

Clear-winged Grasshoppers, Camnula pellucida, sometimes swarm to mate. We took the photos shown here along a south-facing, exposed stretch of the upper Wolf Creek Trail, in the Hurricane Ridge area of Olympic National Park. We observed hundreds of this species, some mating.

Slide 8 shows two Clear-winged Grasshoppers that appear to be investigating three male Crackling Forest Grasshoppers, Trimerotropis verruculata, attempting to mate with a female.

Thanks to metrioptera on bugguide.net for the ID.

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